It’s a scam

On this Climate Strike Day where all the folks are marching with placards and chants for change hoping politicians will pass a bill to adjust the cultural mentality of plastic people. You’ve forgotten Earth Day?

Sure it is getting hotter. If you don’t believe the scientific evidence, come sit with me outside. It is hotter this year than last year and that year was hotter than the year before. The rain, when it rains, is heavier than ever before and the snow isn’t as deep. Hiding in your climate controlled mobile machine or electric sucking heat pump only continues to raise the cost.

How many plastic water bottles will be left on the streets after the protestors go home? How much trash will have to be picked up?

 We’ve been talking about all this ‘take care of our planet’ for eons but it is easier to put the plastic, bottles, cans, cardboard into the recycle bin to be picked up and hauled away. Out of sight – out of mind.

Now doesn’t that make you feel you are doing your part to save the world?

And where do those plastic bags and bottle carrier rings go? Are they melted down and made into something new? How many times can that happen? Are they ground up and miraculously converted to shoe soles or dashboards? Where does Tupperware come from?  

Just like that big truck that would dump out blue top recycle bins and give us that warm fuzzy feeling of ‘saving the earth’ all that would be dumped into a storage container and shipped to China. Why?

China would take the metal and melt it down and combine it with other metals and make it into toasters and microwaves to resell to us. The quality was lacking but it was cheap.

Then finally China got tired of filling their landfills with our trash and it was not profitable to take it any more. So who else wants our trash?

There was a time when crackers came in a tin. Coffee was ground at the store into a paper bag and put into a permanent coffee tin in the kitchen. Cola came in glass bottles (so did milk) and were sent back for pennies to be rewashed and reused. Grocery store bags were brown paper reused for book covers and trash (though they did leak).

Not everything was so earth friendly. The automobile and the highway taught us to just toss trash out the window and it was someone else’s problem. Cigarettes were an example of just dropping the butt on the ground and stepping on it, then walking away.

So is our self-righteous ‘Climate Strike’ protest going to shock us into changing our ways?

Tomorrow the sun will rise, the cars will fill the highway, the water will continued to be poisoned, the plastic will be eaten by the fishes who will be eaten by us and all the solar panels and windmills cannot feed our cry for more electricity.

I’ll still fill my recycle bin to the rim and feel I’m doing my part, but I know it is going to the landfill just like the other trash to sit for hundreds of years.