I see it everywhere, people pretending to care about the environment. I see young and old doing it. If everyone who says they cared about the planet actually did something about it, we wouldn’t see a thousand different brands of bottled water in every store. Seriously, how is bottled water still a thing? How it that I can walk down the street every day and see plastic water bottles on the grass, the sidewalk, the streets, the garbage?
It blows me away that people will spend $2 on a Liter of bottle of water (that they can get at home for $0.005 per liter) and then complain that $1.74 a liter of gas is too much. I point out to those people that they’re lucky their cars don’t run on water.
People think they’re smart but constantly fall for all the marketing scams sent their way. I know people who will only drink a certain brand of bottled water… WTF? Don’t even get me started on all the micro plastics we’re ingesting in ourselves and our food supply. How about all the birds and animals we’re killing just to have a bottle of water? Then there’s the pop and other stuff we drink from plastic bottles.
Canada is a small country, and we drink about 2.4 billion liters of bottled water, so if you’re dinking half liter bottles which most do, we’re using up 4,8000,000,000 bottles. That’s an average of 117 bottles per Canadian per year. In the good old US of A that’s 118,778,450,000 bottles a year. I know most of you can’t figure out that number it’s 118.8 billion.
Look, I’m not going to get into all the other shit we buy, like pre-packaged food. Well, maybe one story.
I’m shopping around and I’m in the cheese isle, when I hear this person complaining about the cost of cheese. She all like, “How am I going to feed my kids?” So, I walk over to her, and I say, “You know, if you just buy the large piece of uncut cheese at the same dollar amount,” and I point to it so she’s not confused, “and you cut it yourself, you’ll get five times the amount of cheese you’re getting.”
She looks at me like I’m crazy. But she’s the one buying individually wrapped cheese pieces with more ingredients in it that the bulk unit, not to mention, but I guess I will, more garbage and plastic to go with it.
And please don’t tell me you don’t have enough time to cut cheese. You can do it while you’re watching your 2-4 hours of Netflix every night. While you’re watching Netflix on your TV, put down your phone and cut the cheese. Don’t panic, you can keep your phone face up, you won’t miss a thing. But you might want to YouTube a “how to use a knife” video before starting.
Anyhow, there are a thousand excuses you can make as to why it’s too complicated to not buy pre-packaged everything, but in the end all I want from you is for you to stop pretending you care about the planet or the environment. Just shut your mouth and go on with your daily life. You’re only making yourself look stupid. Oh, I mean just shut your mouth about how much you care, we always talk about other things.
I’m just saying…
Chip.
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