2007 - Green becomes popular

[taxlady]

2007 seems to be the year that concern for the environment becomes mainstream. I just heard some young, hot, celebrity saying that "Green is cool."

This is a good thing, right? So, why does it bother me? Is it my bat radar/spidey sense going off? Or am I just getting old and crotchety? Maybe it feels like it's a fad and that's what scares me.

Maybe it's all the newby greenies telling me what to do. Oprah Winfrey told us that we can all cut back two paper napkins per day and that this will save some huge number of trees. No, Oprah, I can't possibly cut back two paper napkins per day. I use cloth napkins. I doubt I use as much as two paper napkins per week on average (in restaurants and cafes). Maybe it's my ego getting wounded - all these Johnny come latelies acting like they invented the environmental movement.

I've been a greeny/tree hugger for over 30 years. Tell me something well thought through. Discuss it. Quit trying to teach your granny to suck eggs.

It was hard to get many people interested until the threat of global climate change. I'm more concerned about Colony Collapse Disorder, also known as Vanishing Bee Syndrome and what we are doing that changes the composition of our atmosphere.

Comments

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Wait...why is someone as cool as you watching Oprah anyway?

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

I don't usually. We don't have cable, so we get two French channels and two English channels. I like having the TV on while I work. It makes me look away from the computer every once in a while. Anyhoo, I was going to change the channel, but then I saw that they were talking about green/tree hugger stuff.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

You know what's crazy? The fact that the military commissaries I shop at are now stocking organic foods on literally every shelf in the store.