Yes, it’s true. I’m going “green”. I’m not a hippy. Don’t start getting any funny ideas. I know we need wood to build houses, and that; but I can’t help but think of all of the recyclables I throw away. Glass bottles, plastic bottles, plastic bags, cardboard, paper…Yep…I’m going to get recycling bins. Lord knows where I’ll put them, but I feel pretty determined. I can’t help but thinking, in some way, that my efforts are futile. There’s so many people. There’s so many people who’re unwilling to do a few little things that may or may not make a difference.
It may all be in vain anyways. Who knows? The earth could be hit by an asteroid tomorrow. Maybe global warming, despite what we’ve been told, could happen within about 10 minutes or so. Anyways, I’m feeling guilty about throwing away all the things that perfectly things could be made of. I will never…you hear me???…NEVER hug a tree (probably).
As I make a shift from loving nature, to beating the crap out of it…I’m lead to my next subject.
You may or may not be aware that I have some sort of a ridiculous “disease” called Graves Disease. This disorder causes my thyroid to overproduce the thyroid hormone; which, in turn makes me completely psychologically unstable. Welllllllll….I took some sort of radioactive iodine treatment to “ablate” my thyroid gland about 8 weeks ago. I went in to have some blood work done last week, and found out that I am now severely HYPOthyroidism (which is the opposite of hyperthyroidism). Well, this causes extreme fatigue. I could sleep 24 hours per day.
I was awakened this morning at about 10:00, because of a horn honking at the next door neighbor’s house. For a LONG time. That has to be about the most annoying thing in the world. Finally, ANOTHER vehicle comes and starts honking (unbeknown to me, it was the elderly neighbor two houses down from me in the neighbor’s drive; where all the honking was coming from). By this time I was livid, and leaned out the front door and shouted, “They aren’t HOME!”.
He left their driveway and came into mine to explain that my dear neighbors evil dog had gotten out of the fence and was biting them, and wouldn’t let them out of their house or out of the car. This dog is a pit bull/siberian husky mix. A few months ago, he would come to the fence barking, and if I jumped at him, he’d tuck tail and run the other way. The dog is obviously a little more confident now.
This enraged me even more. There were a couple of reasons; 1) the honking 2) the neighbor not answering the door 3) and finally, that evil dog running around biting people.
I grabbed the fire poker (heavy) in my right hand, and a broomstick in the other and went over to get the devil dog back into his pen. I went over to talk to the neighbors who’d been bitten, and they sternly warned me that the dog would bite me. I did my best to comfort them; after all, I did have a peacemaker in my hand.
I turned and began to walk over to the gate and opened it up so I could run the evil animal back into their yard. I got almost to the gate when I hear them yelling, telling me that I’m about to be bitten. I stopped, and raised my poker, and the dog stopped. I turned back around to go to the gate, and immediately heard more warnings. As I turned around, the dog was actually in attack mode. I swung that heavy fire tool with about as much force as I could muster; connecting right in the side of the monster’s ugly head. He yelped, and headed back onto the OTHER neighbor’s porch AGAIN. From their porch, he jumped back over his fence, and into the correct yard.
That dog MUST be missing teeth. I’m glad. I will beat down a mean dog in a second.
Be good, kids.
-Beans™
Recycling is useless. Just look at some research on it. It’s like putting a bandaid on a severed head. Not that I don’t do it…I do. Every Monday I load up my little blue Recycling Bin and the city comes and picks it up from the end of my driveway, but that doesn’t mean it is not useless.
Now, you could go really green and stop driving everywhere you go, or using harmful chemicals to clean your house, etc. That is not useless.
I’ve heard that green is the new black.
*burns Styrofoam*
*pours oil into the river*
*pollutes groundwater*
Niiiiice.
Stop that! I think I am down-river from you.
you CAN make a difference. the social change we need doesn’t exist yet because of ignorance and hopeless attitudes and the misconception that being “an environmentalist” or a “tree hugger” is a bad thing.
check out my environmental blog and find out ways you can make a difference:
http://endsecondhandsmoke.blogspot.com/
and continue to promote social change!!
(and if you ever feel like one person can’t significantly impact society, watch the movie NORMA RAE).
The following solutions might work:
1) Try to minimise the use of paper by maximising the use of computers. Instead of paper, type it out. Buy e-books online instead of buying books from the store, be they for anything, college/school textbooks or general reading pleasure. Teachers and professors in schools and colleges should encourage students to submit soft copies of their assignments and projects instead of hard copies. Seek subscriptions for newspapers and magazines online instead of buying their actual paper version.The end result of all this would be that lesser trees would be cut, but the question that crops up is what about all the electricity required to run all these billions of computers? For that…
2) Nuclear Power, used safely, securely by governments throughout the world, for civilian purposes, to generate adequate amounts of electricity to fulfill the needs of this planet’s burgeoning population..that seems the only probable, executable solution.
Rational approaches rather than extreme jumps. Good for you. We can always do something…every little bit counts. But one can always do more…you don’t have to hug all the trees all the time. Just pick one. It may never be enough, but at least it is something.
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” Cree Indian Proverb
Hi, I just wanted to say that reading this part of your blog cheered me up. Because I’ve been feeling so small and that my efforts to recycle and such, are futile, but now it feels like maybe there are people out there trying to save what little can be saved.
Thank you.
//My – From Sweden
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