Tonight, there is a programme on BBC TV all about the upcoming catastrophe of climate change, and whether or not we still have a chance to reverse our effect on the environment.
They
can save themselves the bother, because I think I’ve identified the solution.
Forget wind farms and eating insects and electric cars and all those other
silly scientific suggestions that are being bandied about. I have the one step
we can all take that will slow down our poisonous, ruinous global legacy.
Ready?
Stop
buying each other greetings cards.
Seriously
– the whole thing is an absolute nonsense, and must be terribly detrimental to
the world around us.
I
understand that it’s nice to send Christmas greetings to people you won’t be
seeing during December, and it’s nice to post Happy Birthday wishes in card
form to distant friends and relatives, but our supermarkets now have a large
section full of Easter cards. EASTER
CARDS…..
I
look at the shelves and all I see is a group of trees that were massacred for
these stupid little £2.50 ‘Happy Easter’ folds of cardboard. AND THEY’RE ALL WRAPPED IN PLASTIC!!!
Think
of the destruction of the forests that goes into the construction of these damn
things; think of the harm the waste that is thrown away afterwards is doing to
our oceans and wildlife; then think of the answer to the question ‘for why?’
And
the answer to that question?: So that you can purchase a pathetically-written,
poorly-manufactured, expensively-priced piece of envelope filling in order to
tell someone something that you should be telling them to their face every day;
so that they can proudly display it in their home for a few days before adding
it to the pile of discarded shite that we humans churn out constantly and
unnecessarily; so that you can continue lining the pockets of unscrupulous
companies who prey on your need to feel like you’re being a perfect friend.
It’s
ridiculous. It’s wasteful. It’s unnecessary.
It
must stop.
(At
least today’s blog wasn’t a rant, right?)
RC 18-4-19
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