of course, at the time I lived in a house where chain smoking was required and nobody ever heard of cholesterol. Everything was lathered in lead paint and swaddled in asbestos, wood was preserved with good old heavy metals and arsenic, early plastics had formaldehyde in them, we were tuning cars up and throwing away spark plugs every 15K because of all the lead and inefficiency and rivers caught fire for all the **** dumped into them, not to mention a certain Love(ly) Canal.This has become cliched to even say, but when I grew up milk came in glass bottles that were washed when empty and put in a bin on the front porch for the regular diary service. Soda came in glass one gallon jugs and those old tall glass bottles that were all returned for the deposit. Canned beverages were in steel cans you needed a church key for - not even pull tabs left over to make a mess.
I can guarantee you that none of that stuff ever choked a dolphin or is in a huge morass in the northern Pacific.
I get important snail mail routinely at certain times of the year from official entities. But I do appreciate the USPS for package deliveries.This is a random fact I am not offering, I'm wondering about.
How often do you get an actually important, useful piece of snail mail? Rarely for me - they could hold it and deliver it once a month for all it's worth. Every day it's a box full of garbage. How much gasoline does the USPS burn on an annual basis to do that and what are the implications for material waste, landfill space, emissions? If I were that worried I'd get a PO box but I'm not really.
Also, we sit on our asses and order stuff online as I did this morning. Several times a week I have FedEx and UPS down the driveway bringing something and sometimes the USPS even pinch hits for them on Sundays. So while we're wringing our hands over EVs and carbon emissions we are also burning literal oceans of fuel with all the attendant problems. Amazon and UPS have brand new vehicles all over the place, some are quite high end and look alien - obviously major investments in their fleets. They all seem to have tailpipes - you'd think they'd be ones to jump on the EV/hybrid bandwagon and that we might wonder why they haven't, but our politics and conveniences are two different things. Let's throw in Door Dash and Uber Eats and all that stuff because we no longer can bestir ourselves to go get food or groceries. .
Global climate change isn't driven by human carbon emission, it's driven by hypocrisy.
I get my utility bills through the USPS snail mail and also my monthly car insurance bill comes through the postal service...I pay all those bills online now but still get a paper bill in the mail...How often do you get an actually important, useful piece of snail mail? Rarely for me - they could hold it and deliver it once a month for all it's worth. Every day it's a box full of garbage. How much gasoline does the USPS burn on an annual basis to do that and what are the implications for material waste, landfill space, emissions? If I were that worried I'd get a PO box but I'm not really.
At every turn, it's astonishing the heaping piles of shyte this climate change movement has created along with the fact they are escalating the very outcome they claim they're trying to prevent...So-called green technology has a worse impact on the earth than our tried and true fossil fuel tech...Green technology development has a long road ahead of it...Global climate change isn't driven by human carbon emission, it's driven by hypocrisy.