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Curly cue light bulbs, hybrid cars, reusable shopping bags, bike to work days… People are becoming more and more environmentally conscience these days. Does it really have something to do with that Al Gore Movie? Who knows. Personally, I fell asleep fifteen minutes into it and never attempted watch it agin. Those first fifteen minutes gave me the general gist of the flick anyway. global warming, dying penguins, blah, blah, blah. But I do not need some guy who lost an election to an organ grinder named Dick (guess who his monkey is) to know that humankind’s penchant for fossil fuels is wreaking havoc on the Earth’s eco-system. I do not need to be bored to death by his stiff, forced yammering on, to know that it is only going to get worse as our population expands to Malthusian levels. Nope, old Al Gore doesn’t have to tell me that we are heading for a future dystopia unless we began to do something about and change the way we live. I have been knowing about this kinda of shit since I was kid. It had been drilled in to relentlessly through television programming and 16 years of public schooling. I am a trained recycling robot who cannot help but be environmentally conscience. I have been forced fed Captain Planet and weekly reader and have celebrated Earthday by planting a tree . I know that every little bit helps, no matter how small the contribution and if everybody in California bought just one curly cue bulb to use, that it would be as if thier were a 30,000 vehicles off the road, or something like that.
No Al Gore, you are preaching to the choir. I have already been doing my part. I ride my bike to work practically everyday, and I switched every single light bulb in my house to one of those curly cues. I turn off all the lights when I leave and even try to remember to unplug my charger. I wipe with recycled toilet paper and have practiced if its yellow let it mellow until my girlfriend almost strangled me. Hell I am pratically a damn smelly hippy, and prod of it. Hooray Mother Earth!
Perhaps going green is just starting to make better sense to people now that fuel costs have reached staggering heights. Trading in a hummer for a hybrid, or doing things to cut household energy costs now makes a heck of a lot of sense to Joe and Jane America now that their bank accounts are feeling the squeeze from the rising costs.
But hey, who says being environmentally conscience means that you can’t save a few bucks also. Growing up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , learned early on about the economic values of reduce, reuse, recycle. Mason jars make great cups and you can make a small fortune collecting pop cans and turning them in are two lessons every ten year snot nosed Yooper kid learns early on.
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