"Your generation didn't care about the environment and ruined it for future generations."
Long before you're parents got married I recycled, planted trees, cleaned up parks, and supported environmental laws.
From a story posted online with my edits.
Here's one response to this accusation
“Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles, & beer bottles. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over. They were recycled.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, which we reused for numerous things. Most people used them for kitchen trash. Now we have to put another plastic bag for that. Plastic supermarket bags were great for dog walking or cat litter but those are being banned so we have to... yup, buy more plastic bags. We'd be fine with breaking the fingers of people who litter those bags too. We walked to the grocery and didn't need a car every time we had to go two blocks.
We washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power did dry our clothes back in our day. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
We had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. Kids were the "remotes" when parents wanted to change the channel. A 27" black and white TV was common, not a screen the size of Pennsylvania. In the kitchen, we mixed things by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded-up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
We had push movers and hand clippers to take care of the yard. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
We went outside all day instead of sitting inside staring at a cell phone produced with minerals mined by children in Africa. We didn't need a phone to get called home. The streetlights told us when to go home.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades with a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
Back then, people took a bus and kids rode their bikes instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles in space to find the nearest burger joint. Don't even get me started on phone books or rotary dials.
But the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing.
Has all the newest modern tech made your life better or do you sit alone sharing divisive posts and getting angry? The most educated generation full of opportunity and technology is more interested in how bad this country is and how everybody else is bad and to blame for their problems.
