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When going green means it’s someone else’s problem

May 12, 2010 on 8:05 pm | In Environment, Logic, Old Curmudgeon | No Comments

Someone recently dropped off a bunch of old magazines to my work so the public could read them while they wait. He was very proud of himself for not throwing these magazines away. No use filling up the landfills, right?

Does this guy seriously think that shifting his garbage to someone else to throw away actually solves anything? Certainly these magazines will not stay here forever. Eventually someone will throw them away. (Me, actually.) So it’s only a matter of time before they get tossed in a landfill.

I see this sort of BS directed to kids. You know, the whole recycle, reduce and reuse mantra. I see nothing wrong with recycling and reducing. But reusing is merely delaying the inevitable. Kids are told for example, instead of throwing away a jar, use it to store your coins. That works if you need a jar to store your coins. If you don’t, you’re only delaying the inevitable. Heck, come to think of it, even if you do need a jar to store coins, you’re still only delaying the inevitable. Someone somewhere is going to throw that jar away.

And what about the next jar? Or the jar after that? How many fricken coins do kids have nowadays? Don’t they buy candy anymore?

Sure we could recycle those jars and the magazines that get dumped on us by rude fucktards who thought they were saving the planet by delaying the inevitable. But why didn’t they do that in the first place? Why should it suddenly be my responsibility merely because they’re too fucking lazy to do it themselves?!

To me anyone who dumps his garbage on someone else under the pretense of “reusing” is at best being a prick. At worst being an idiot.

“Look at me I’m saving the planet by forcing someone else to do my recycling for me!”

La de fucking da!