Feeling Environmental
Nothing particularly political, but something to make all us tree-huggin' hippies feel a little better.
Los Angeles bans plastic bagging in stores
Los Angeles bans plastic bagging in stores
by MG at 10:42 AM
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
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"San Francisco, 600 kilometers (373 miles) north of here, also in California, in 2007 became the first US city to ban plastic bags from its stores."
That's from the article. I live not far from the bay area, and I didn't know they had done that. I've been there a number of times since the law went into effect but it just seemed common place to me that plastic bags were no where to be seen.
I'm not knocking the policy. But what I continue to find both laughable and sad is the fact that the primary reason stores shifted to plastic bags in the first place was because environmentalists insisted on it, in order to "save the trees" used for paper bags. Now here we are in worse shape.
I don't mind that the environmentalists wanted to save the trees. There is just a new problem that must be dealt with, and rather than sweep it under the rug, environmentalists are out trying to change it again. With recycleable materials and pushes to purchase reusable bags, at least they are doing something that's better than paper bags AND plastic bags.
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against saving the trees, either. I just think this is a prime example of environmentalists jumping into action and pushing "solutions" without fully looking at the big picture, and winding up creating new & bigger problems in their rush to do *something*. If they had taken a step back & REALLY looked at the problem along with an analysis of the proposed solution 25-30 years ago, then they would have seen the problems plastic bags created. We could have had a solution to the original problem a long time ago, without the new problems created.
I often wonder if the same thing is going to happen with hybrid cars. In the rush to develop alternatives to regular gasoline engines, are we going to have a major problem with battery disposals a few years from now? I don't know the answer, but definitely get the impression that question has not been seriously analyzed yet.
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