Zach LarkinsMy Grass is Greener.......
It seems to me that at this point in time many in our society are taking advantage of the greenvolution. Whether it be hybrid cars with fewer emissions, green bags for groceries, or the shorter shower and save the power movement. All of these arguments and actions are fine by me, it is when boasting and preaching take over, that these awesome ideas start to fall on deaf ears.
What does it actually mean to be "green"? Are we really saving the trees and the extended planet when we buy a carbon-offset ticket to a three-day music festival that numbs one's senses, hightening their euphoric experiences giving them many, feel-good sensations. Sure, that definitely sounds like it would make you feel better about yourself. What about when the drugs wear off though? It almost seems like any way you spin this "green" movement it will forever be one step forward and two back. That is, until we deal with the real issues at hand. The fact that we as a society must change the architecture of our social constructs. For instance, shortening the gap between individual and public transport. Changing the way we act and not just changing our fuel source. Why is it, that thousands of individual cars still commute into major cities for working purposes when "the office" has a somewhat redundant existence within today's corporate model? When the majority have computers with internet access in their own homes, isn't it time to question why we travel long distances, in fuel guzzlers, in order to do work that we are more than capable of doing from home.
Of course, there are certain industries and workplaces that require a functional HQ, for employees to undertake their day-to-day working routines. However, there are many that do not. Besides it would make life so much easier, you wouldn't have to deal with that dickhead from accounts all the time.
However you look at it, the green machine seems to be churning out but another image or fad for our capatilist commrades to consume. I am part of this. I take my green bags shopping (which by the way must be mass-produced in a very similair way to plastic bags, so do they have special bio-degradable qualities. Because what happens when someone invents a red bag, do we then throw all our green bags out? I'm sure a penguin or dolphin wouldn't give a fuck who the manufacturer was, they would both be a prick to remove from your snout), I have shorter showers, I use the half-flush (it still amazes me that we flush perfectly good drinking water down our toilets) and I switch off the lights. But I still drive a car, use water, gas and electricity.
What does it mean to be "green", in terms of the environment I mean?
What does it actually mean to be "green"? Are we really saving the trees and the extended planet when we buy a carbon-offset ticket to a three-day music festival that numbs one's senses, hightening their euphoric experiences giving them many, feel-good sensations. Sure, that definitely sounds like it would make you feel better about yourself. What about when the drugs wear off though? It almost seems like any way you spin this "green" movement it will forever be one step forward and two back. That is, until we deal with the real issues at hand. The fact that we as a society must change the architecture of our social constructs. For instance, shortening the gap between individual and public transport. Changing the way we act and not just changing our fuel source. Why is it, that thousands of individual cars still commute into major cities for working purposes when "the office" has a somewhat redundant existence within today's corporate model? When the majority have computers with internet access in their own homes, isn't it time to question why we travel long distances, in fuel guzzlers, in order to do work that we are more than capable of doing from home.
Of course, there are certain industries and workplaces that require a functional HQ, for employees to undertake their day-to-day working routines. However, there are many that do not. Besides it would make life so much easier, you wouldn't have to deal with that dickhead from accounts all the time.
However you look at it, the green machine seems to be churning out but another image or fad for our capatilist commrades to consume. I am part of this. I take my green bags shopping (which by the way must be mass-produced in a very similair way to plastic bags, so do they have special bio-degradable qualities. Because what happens when someone invents a red bag, do we then throw all our green bags out? I'm sure a penguin or dolphin wouldn't give a fuck who the manufacturer was, they would both be a prick to remove from your snout), I have shorter showers, I use the half-flush (it still amazes me that we flush perfectly good drinking water down our toilets) and I switch off the lights. But I still drive a car, use water, gas and electricity.
What does it mean to be "green", in terms of the environment I mean?
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