dianaiad
Well-Known Member
You judged me on my 5 polyester T-shirts being bad for the environment. You COULD stop judging others. That is the point you missed. He who does not burden environment can judge me and others however much he likes. Probably he won't.
You choose to wear polyester, and are proud of it, in spite of the FACT that you can make a different choice.
I can't make a different choice.
Cars was an example (I quoted it even). I am 100% sure that you own and use things in your life that are a burden to the environment. I do not use soap and tooth paste, do you?
Home made soap...and no, I don't use toothpaste. I have dentures.
Also chemicals which needs to be manufactured in big factories using oil/Watts to run the machines. Even you live and breathe; CO2.[
Judging others is insensitive, also a burden on (social) environment.
All people live and burden mother earth to some extend. That's life, until you die. Then the worms can eat you. That's good, you are being well used, to profit others. Cremating is an extra burden; all energy it takes, and withdrawing worms their food.
Where I live, bodies don't decompose. Too hot and too dry. They mummify.
However, whenever I HAVE A CHOICE, I do the environmentally responsible thing.
As to being 'judgmental,' why not? Were you not being judgmental of me because, well, you don't drive a car and do other things, and because you assumed that I was an irresponsible enemy to the environment BECAUSE I am conservative?
Here's a hint. "Conservative' comes from the word 'conserve.' I believe the bible when I read that we have been given the earth to be good stewards over. To conserve it, protect it, and live responsibly in it.
You were bragging about how environmentally responsible you are.....and then you drop the bombs about wearing polyester shirts because its too much trouble to wash cotton and because they last longer.
I'm sorry, but that's a really environmentally lousy reason to choose polyester over natural fibers like cotton and wool...or even silk. People have been washing natural fiber garments without washing machines or 'chemicals' (meaning petroleum based chemicals) for thousands of years. ...and because they LAST longer? Sheesh.
I'm beginning to think that some enviromentalists are short sighted, and contradictory. I mean really; if you are all that worried about the CO2 living critters produce, you'd be applauding all the folks who pretty much killed off the American bison. After all, those formerly millions and millions of bison produced a LOT of Co2, didn't they? And it's not as if there were as many trees soaking it all up as there are NOW in the USA, because there weren't.
Sometimes I have to wonder a bit.
No, sir....if I have the CHOICE, I'll go 'environmentalist,' though that's not what I'm thinking about at the time. When I don't have a choice, (like with cars) I just do what I can.
Oh, and I have one package of plastic straws that I have used and reused for nearly seven years now. They are washable, did you know that? And when they finally can't be used for drinks, they make MARVELOUS knitting markers. None of my straws end up in a land fill. How about you?