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Back in the day...we didnt have the "green thing"
Saw this and it made me laugh.
Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. I apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days“.
The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations“.
She was right about one thing–our generation didn’t have the green thing in “Our” day. So what did we have back then? After some reflection and soul-searching on “Our” day, here’s what I remembered we did have….
Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles repeatedly. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby’s nappies because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 240 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Wales. In the kitchen, we blended & stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right. We didn’t have the green thing back then.
We drank from a water fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?
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Alright! Time for another game of "who's generation is better"!
Love these. I'll support your comments transplant... that stupid idiot totally should have controlled what generation she was born into. What a dumbass.
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Okay. As one of the token environmentalists here.... I think many of us have lamented that our grandparents had it right. I've often commented on how little my Nana Miller lived on.... she wasn't environmentally friendly because she wanted to be, but because she HAD to be. When she died at the age of 92 she was still using the same cups and saucers that she got as a wedding present at 18.
I think the problems of waste grew over time.... from the boom of the 50s, to the abundances of the 60s, through the me-generation of the 80s.... waste just became a way of life. Replace things that are broken rather than repair. Heck, a friend of my throws away a perfectly fine working printer every 6 months because it's cheaper to buy a new printer with ink than it is to buy new ink cartridges.
That said, my favourite lyric of all time is Don Henley's "Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac."
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We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 240 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days.
This is the bit that stood out for me.
I get that it's subjective but I've no issues with clothes lines in back yards and feel it should be more up to the choice of an individual as opposed to a sub-division imposed ban by developers.
Thanks for taking back your milk bottles. It totally makes up for the massive government debt we'll have to pay off and hopefully you guys don't spend all of the CPP money.
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They had acid rain and fears about global cooling back in the day. We came along and fixed that, and on this generations behalf let me say "you're welcome!"
I saw this the other day on FB and scratched my head. Not so much at the content of the post, which contains numerous questionable statements, but because the 'friend' that posted it is a 38-39 year old woman I went to high school with. I couldn't figure out which generation she thinks she's part of since about 80% of the comments made by the old person wouldn't apply to her.
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Our planet is threatened by humans and our behavior
To such an extent that the climate
The habitat, and evolution itself may change forever
We're faced with choices
Choices that will affect all of our lives
The lives of our offspring and those to come.
We're faced with choices
Choices that will affect all of our lives
The lives of our offspring and those to come.
For the first time in history
Our planet is threatened by humans and our behavior
To such an extent that the climate
The habitat, and evolution itself may change forever
We're faced with choices
Choices that will affect all of our lives
The lives of our offspring and those to come.
Back in the day...we didnt have the "green thing"
