POINT'S OF VIEW conversation on the local today..,

a bit windy but got to my local for an afternoon pint of bitter, coversaaation between my friends became quite interesting, GREEN or RED , first "coment" organic honey, "WHAT" SAID FRED,? how is organic honey made? Roy replyes well the bees have being given passes to organic flowers and when they come back with the polen they are then tested that they came from those flowers, huum, said fred, surelly they use insecticide for those flowers? i as rude as ever interupct" after all they are friends" this green thing, i said, is it pushing us into the red? they went !!!!!, fred said recicle, i say, my rude comement" as a woman was present, and very GREEN and rude, i said do you recicle tampons, roy said yes just pass them on to the next cxxxx, i left in a hurry, the issue that i want to make of all this crap, WHAT IS GREEN?
NANDO

 

wtf was that all about?

 

Tfa, Is What The Hell Is Going Green All About, ? And Explain Why Certain Things Are Good And Some Are Not , And For Who's Benefit,

 

Seriously though what was that first post all about, it made no sense?

 

He tells you in the first sentence. Some of us can handle more than one pint

 

Let's have suggestions on what Nando meant.

 

Seriously though I think he was asking what is green and how far would you go? For example, would you recycle tampons? I suppose vampires might be grateful.

 

Ok - how much energy is used up when posting on an internet forum? Just think of all the PCs (and macs of course) that read it? All the servers that host it, all the search engines etc used for accessing it?

 

You mean to say your PC/Mac is not connected to your treadmill?

It is a very serious issue and I feel most people speaking on green issues don't actually know what they are talking about. For example how many people know how much energy is used to manufacture a car, a washing machine etc and how much are they actually helping by changing their machines to "greener" alternatives regularly. A greener alternative in a lot of cases is to simply keep on running older machines for longer. Another example I can think of is at work where all our large bins were replaced by a larger number of smaller bins (so you needed more of them) of different colours for different types of rubbish (one each for recycling plastic, metal and paper and another one for general waste). Now bearing in mind that there was nothing wrong with older bins, how much additional energy was wasted to produce the new ones just so that they could be a different colour?

 

Would you buy recycled toilet paper? (you have to use the other side )

 

geez, we'll not be able to buy inefficient speakers next!

 

now you are getting my subget, good lads, is not rocket science to know how this so called goverments or as i call them polytrictians know the best way to fool us all of our decent life earnings to fill their pockets, please continue, dev has almost touch the fulcrom,
nando

 

May I mumble banana to the dogpatch...

Where me donkey lover?

 

nando - ever heard of short term pain for long term gain? If we change our waste bins for eco freindly colour ocded ones, then yes we are in green debt, but we are also on the path of 'payback'

 

we will always pay for what we don't get, not us anyway but those who jump in the "GREEN"bandwagon will make sure that they become wealthy on our behalf, we "i feel" are pawns on a chess game, our rights slowly but surelly being redused to zero,
nando

 

NOTHING we do will make any difference to the mess we're in IMO.
China and India will not and can not hold back on their development, this however has massive consequences for the planet.
Add to that the US's insatiable appetite for energy and materials and Russia's stranglehold on energy supplies/resources closer to home, the scramble for the resources under the ice caps etc etc we're f****d, just plain and simple f*****d.
Yes I do recycle via our council, I even used the different coloured bottle banks too until after one particularly good bender saw the local binmen very early one morning empty them all into the same hopper
Go green if it makes you feel good but in the overall scheme of things it means jack shit.
I'm typing this with my head between my knees trying to kiss my ample decadent consumerist western arse goodbye.

 

well said cooky, i also saw the same thing done here, and when i asked "the question" reply was none existant, oh dear..