Going Green has begotten a lot of recognition in the last few years.
Searching through what is true and what is not can leave many people fooled and I am annoyed of all of the misuses of the "Going Green Movement".
Truthfully this misuse is helping to consume unrenewable resources and even worse canceling out jobs. The unfortunate part is it has been going on for years and years.
There are many companies out there stating that they are recommending services in the name of going green when in fact they are just conserving their selves money and even work.
For example, your bank or utility companies very likely has lured you into switching your account statements into emails instead of using the U.S. Postal Service. They state that it saves trees and landfills by decreasing the use of paper.
If any individual was to take the time to think about this, they would notice that the only thing it truly saves is money for the bank.
See paper is formed from a renewable resource, TREES!
Trees can be farmed and replanted. Pine trees grow rather fast and are farmed on tree farms throughout our country. Paper can also be recycled, keeping it from taking up space in landfills.
The banks may not even recognize this. They may have been sold on this false "going green" idea also. I honestly doubt it, but maybe.
The bottom line is that they save money from not printing the statements, putting them in an envelope, and paying for postage to mail them.
Do you notice the jobs that are suffering by them supposedly going green? Tree farms, paper mills, envelope makers, and the U.S. postal service is suffering from these banks trying to save a few pennies and covering it by boasting to be going green.
Another instance that helps me tie this in to another great point is those little hand dryers in public restrooms. The little metal plate posted on them declares that those electric hand dryers are far better for the environment because they cut down in paper cost and landfill space.
Now I'm not going to fire off on the absurb claims about saving trees again. No, now I am going to refer to the use of electricity.
Many power plants throughout the U.S. use coal to produce the
power needed to run those little electric hand dryers. Can it really be "better" for the environment to release the emissions out of a coal burning power plant to run these hand dryers. The crazy part is it doesn't work on the first push of the botton anyway?
Is it really more suitable to use a non-renewable resource like coal instead of paper that can be made from farmed trees?
I seriously can not believe the wool that is being pulled of everyones eyes. No, what those hand dryers do is save money for the individuals who try to make you believe these things are better and they help keep those public bathrooms free of litter that someone has to clean up.
My last example is the one that chaps my hide the most and scares me for the future. This is the one that has been happening since the industrial revolution. Automated workers.
Automated workers... Those robots and computer programs that take up working class jobs for the sake of perserving industries long term money. They save on wages and even retirement money that the working class use to try to survive on.
Now before I go off on a babble about how the industries needed to focus on making jobs safer without firing the employees and putting in robots, I will move on and save that thought for you the reader to ponder over.
On the other hand let me mention the power needed to run these electric robots and the quanitity of coal powered electric plants spread out across the United States.
Who are these electric powered workers truly helping?
It's not me or the other out of work Americans. No, it's those top executives that think only of oneself, their money, and do not really think about the people at the real heart of their organization.
I think the American people need to have their eyes opened through these times of going green because if the truth is seen then this can be a beautiful, environmentally friendly movement.
Advocates of the Green Movement everywhere need to realize that when we as Americans say "No" to using our natural resources and still go about useing them, then the laws of supply and demand is going to make these resources cost more when we do get them. In the end we are sending a alarming message across the world.
That concept is "We Save Our Resources So That We Can Deplete Yours". This is really sad and I do not like how it feels in my gut. We as Americans need to step back and stop thinking about the "Going Green Movement" as a way to save money and think about what it really stands for, Saving The Environment.
Going green does not signify making a new light bulb that cost less to energize or turning off the water when we brush our teeth. We can not waste water. Water will make it back into the water cycle. All of this is Just Saving Money! And Going Green definitely doesn't mean saving money by no longer utilizing renewable resources, exactly the opposite in fact.
Going Green stands for locating new alternative ways to power our lives with natural resources furnished by our planet and the universe.
One way I am going to begin helping the environment is by investigating alternative power sources to power some of the appliances inside my home.
I am learning how to build my own solar panels for less than a hundred dollars and in the near future I am going to invest in putting in bladeless wind turbines that are now being announced in the United States.
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