I have decided to give up on the environment. Not locally, but globally. It's all far too complicated to work out what the right thing to do is, so I'm just going to buy whichever smells the best or has an amusing ad.
I no longer care if people want to use disposable nappies, or wrap each grocery item individually in plastic. You want to buy tap water in plastic bottles, be my guest. I'm no longer going to recycle. Hell, if I get enough money I may well start buying sanitary products again. I want to chuck liberal amounts of bleach into the sewer so that my toilet smells like a pine forest. I'd like a toilet seat made of an exotic wood, since wood is much warmer in the winter.
Also, I think I'll buy the fancy, quilted, scented, too-good-for-my-turds toilet paper from now on. I don't know if I can quite bring myself to buy Tegal products yet, but I'm sure my rising apathy will drown the residual conscience pangs eventually.
So basically, I will join the rest of the world in making my immediate environment more pleasant and convenient at the expense of the wider environment. I mean, lets face it, how much of that wilderness crap did you ever use, anyway? Frankly, most of the earth is made up of places you aren't, and will never visit. And if you don't plan on having kids, you don't even have to feel bad about ruining the planet we 'borrow' from the next generation: from your point of view, you get to borrow the planet from complete strangers. You might even indirectly kill off the progeny of an enemy.
Read about it... or not. You can't do anything, so it's only FYI.
I suspect sarcasm.
Posted by: Vincent at April 13, 2005 12:08 PM