I'd rather be covered in trash than live in a world filled with snooty garbage men

I am not crazy. I know what you're thinking. This dude wants to lecture me on the environment. Maybe and maybe not. Probably... but oh well. Anyway, I'm not crazy. I am generally skeptical of the person giving me a speech about the environment, health, or art because we generally are all hypocrites. We all have beliefs, but more often than not we betray ourselves on the follow through. Not that big a deal. I want us all to have ideals. It's just when the doling out of advice comes around that I become bothered. Therefore, I don't want to dole out advice. I will be the first to admit that I waste as much as the next person, so I have no footing to lecture anyone else. However, I would like to explain my thoughts on the subject of waste and our culture. Rock on.

Now, in case you didn't finish yesterday's post (and let's face it, to finish the post you had to read and reading sucks), I'll catch you up... I basically claimed that I would write a rant about Americans and waste. If you think that I'm going to praise our waste management, well you'd better go to foxnews.com instead (They're the only publication willing to tell the truth about this country. That everything is just fine). Long story short, we're terrible at it. This began for me the other day at the elementary school I work at. The third grade was learning about garbage. According to the literature they were using, each American will produce about 4000 times his or her body weight in garbage. That's the only piece of information I'm choosing to work off of for this discussion.

I don't call myself an environmentalist. Rather, I enjoy thinking about things in terms of responsibility. I'm a responsiblist (horrible word). In other words, I believe that there are consequences for our actions that we all have to own up to at some point in our lives. That entails smoking for your entire life which can have dire consequences or buying things that produce a lot of waste which may seem to have innocuous consequences now, but over time that may turn out differently.

Ultimately (I abuse this word but too bad), I'm really just shooting for minor change at this point. For instance, I think a lot of us could get in the habit of brining lunches in a glass/plastic reusable container of some kind. They're affordable and you'll probably end up eating something healthier than you otherwise would. I'm also going to try to think about this more when I go grocery shopping, looking for items that don't have as much packaging. Finally, just try to buy fewer things in general (not that I have a choice).

PS: For anyone who's played games over the past ten years, Madcatz is going to have some fucking explaining to do when we're out of natural resources and we're asking, "who wasted all the plastic?"