Introducing The Bride
August 9th, 2009 at 10:33 pm by The BrideSo if we’re all going to introduce ourselves I guess I will as well.
I suppose I am the odd one out so far having a total of 0 children and being highly unlikely to have any in the near future. I like them enough, but in small doses, with the ability to get them hyper then leave them with their parents.
I asked if my posting name could be an innocuous type of office stationery and instead David decides to call me The Bride, which I think is more about his love of Quentin Tarantino more than anything else.
Politically I suppose I’m probably along the same lines as David (classical liberal), though with the perogative to abandon principled politics where it results in stupidity or inefficiency.
And I have finally been guilted into buying reusable shopping bags, the five cent bag plastic bag charge at New World has given me an economic incentive…plus the Dick Frizzell designed Pams bags are cute. And as I watched my bags get packed, I have to say as I watched the few people with their plastic bags at other checkouts I did feel a small dose of moral superiority. Not that it lasted for long as I returned to my car to drive home (a mere ten minute walk away…) – I still have a way to go before I can claim to be carbon neutral!
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August 9th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Don’t aim for carbon neutral. Be carbon positive!
Vote:The more CO2 we produce, the better off the planet will be. No I don’t believe the alarmist activists; they don’t have the science to back their statements, and have been caught out too often with data fudging and lies.
http://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com
http://www.co2science.org
http://www.icecap.us
August 9th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Hmm, that’s a change for David. He usually refers on the blog to women he knows by ‘[insert town name] Girl’ eg, Auckland Girl
Vote:August 9th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Welcome!
have to say as I watched the few people with their plastic bags at other checkouts I did feel a small dose of moral superiority.
I hope it was short. There is no basis at all for feeling morally superior. Your decision to go reusable will have no measurable effect on anything, certainly in aggregate and possibly even at the margin.
The first step to moral living is to do things that make a difference. Reusing your shopping bags doesn’t do that. Sorry.
Vote:August 9th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
philu and you can be soulmates and morally surperior to all us common folk.
Vote:August 10th, 2009 at 12:21 am
You dont have to BE superior to FEEL superior.
A short course of drugs and self-hypnosis can get you feeling superior about everything you do in your life, even if you are a complete screw-up.
For those of you thinking that I am going to make a phule reference here, you are wrong.
Vote:August 10th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Your decision to go reusable will have no measurable effect on anything
One person won’t measure up much. But a million people might. It’s a collective problem. Even if it just means stretching resources a bit further and reducing a few from blowing around making a nuisance of themselves.
Is the Nixon approach to cheer the US and China along, spew it out?
Vote:August 10th, 2009 at 7:29 am
This obsession society has with these plastic bags is ridiculous, they weigh almost nothing so consume almost nothing in their production, you’d use more resources driving 5 metres or using firelighters.
Vote:August 10th, 2009 at 7:37 am
According to calculations extrapolated from data released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 2001 on U.S. plastic bag, sack, and wrap consumption, somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. Of those, millions end up in the litter stream outside of landfills—estimates range from less than one to three percent of the bags.
Vote:August 10th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Cerium, that means that the manufacture of plastic bags accounts for something like 1/10,000th of oil consumption.
Vote:August 10th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Plastic bag = carbon sink = less carbon in atmosphere. The whole Bad Bag thing is a crock (except for damage to wildlife, that’s reason enough to stop using them).
Vote:August 10th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Estimated between 5 billion and 30 billion bags lose each year. Minus one, it got stuck on my exhaust pipe, must have picked it up off the road, it took a few weeks for the smell to disappear.
Vote:August 10th, 2009 at 8:58 am
1. Disposable plastic bags make up just 0.5 of 1% of total landfill.
2. The reusable bags being offered by Foodstuffs NZ that you were using are all manufactured and shipped (via air freight) from China. The Carbon miles attached to those things is huge. There is also the question of what the Chinese manufacturer did with the chemical ink and dye waste which was a by-product of production.
Sorry but feeling morally superiority about using those toxic waste producing, carbon heavy things is utterly misplaced.
Vote:I’m surprised no journalists have followed this
August 10th, 2009 at 9:17 am
did you use it to carry yr meat in..?
..hope no blood seeped through..eh..?
..that could stain the selfrightousness..of said bag-(carrier)..eh..?
http://whoar.co.nz/2009/becoming-vegan-a-step-to-reduce-impact-on-climate-change/
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 10th, 2009 at 11:34 am
That would only make sense if the plastic bag were made out of atmospheric carbon. But AFAIK they’re made out of oil from the ground, which hasn’t been in the atmosphere for a very long time.
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