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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I don't know if climate change is either real or our fault, frankly I don't really care, as a species we are absurd, we crap where we eat with abandon, there's getting to be as much plastic in the ocean as there are fish, we drive round in absurdly large cars we don't need meanwhile a guy in Mexico who can barely feed his kids grows produce for me so cheap that I let 1/3rd of it go to waste and just throw it away.
None of this is neccersary, gas should cost a fortune, food should be expensive enough that we can't afford to waste it while the guy growing and picking it can live a decent life, most people should have to catch trains or buses, we should be forced to be a less wasteful more frugal people, half the world goes to bed hungry while I have a fridge damn near as big as a small car. My existence is obscene, I don't blame ISIS for hating us, I hate us. We are pigs in the west, if the fear of death is what it takes for us to stop being pigs so be it, I'm happy to go along.
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Now let's be realistic for a moment.
It's nice to say this and it works well in beauty pagents but lets be realistic as well. Your average north american works just as hard as your plant picker in the sun. Most of us get up in the morning at 7am warm up our cars in the cold and don't get home from work till 5pm and a lot of times later. Some of us take our office work home with us and others of us work in hot welding shops with no ac or on labourous rigs. Some of work outside in the cold all day on construction sites. Some of us work up north and don't even get to see our families as much as we'd like to. When people come visit a place like Canada they are often surprised how much we work. Maybe we should compare the day of a first world farmer to a third world farmer?
Many first world people started with nothing, worked through a post secondary education and have given up the majority of their lives to have what they have with long hard hours. Are there those that have it easy at work? You bet, and so do those in the tropics waiting on a nice beach for someone to buy a scuba diving course from them or a boat ride.
I'm saying you can't generalize and say all first world people have it easy. Paris Hilton may have it easy but so do kings and queens of second and third world countries.
The better arguement would be is an apple employee in china or coffee plantation farmer paid fairly in a third world country.
I'll agree that too much food is wasted. Restaurants, grocery stores and in homes.