[BITList] Green thing

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>  : The Green Thing
>
>  In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she
>  should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good
>  for the environment.
>
>  The woman apologized to her and explained, "We didn't have the green
>  thing back in my day."
>
>  The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did
>  not care enough to save our environment."
>
>  He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
>
>  Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to
>  the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and
>  sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and
>  over. So they really were recycled.
>
>
>  We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every
>  store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't
>  climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two
>  blocks.
>
>
>  we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the
>  throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling
>  machine burning up watts -- wind and solar power really did dry
>  the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or
>  sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
>
>  Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every
>  room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief
>  (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
>
>  In the kitchen, we blended and stirred 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 a wadded
>  up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
>
>  Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut
>  the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised
>  by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on
>  treadmills that operate on electricity.
>
>  But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
>
>  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 in a razor instead of throwing away the
>  whole razor just because the blade got dull.
>

>  Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their
>  bikes to school or walked 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 2,000 miles out in space in
>  order to find the nearest pizza joint.
>
>  But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old
>  folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
>
>  Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a
>  lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.

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