Thursday 10 May 2007
Plastic Bags
I remember an essay question from grade school: “Which would most bother you: the death of an elephant at the local zoo, or the death of 20 million Africans?” Most people picked the elephant. I guess we’re not good at processing large numbers. As a test, try fathoming this: Ontario shoppers take home 7 million plastic bags a day, and the US discards 100 billion of them a year. We’re like some giant raptor that gorges on plastic, then shits from our lofty heights on the rest of the earth.
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Can I post here? A hacker (I think) got into my eBay account and fucked everything up. Fuck technology. I feel like putting my laptop into a PLASTIC BAG and throwing it over the Bloor Viaduct and thus into the DON RIVER.
Sorry, I'm in a mood.
Can you put it into a PAPER BAG instead?
That's pretty scary though that someone got into your ebay account (although I guess it might be worse if they got into your PayPal one). Did they bid on something using your name?
Oh, god, Deloney. I hope it gets better. Computers are the best and the worst thing ever.
(I'm kind of into my computer penpals, I have to say. The good stuff.)
Helen, Sewa's buddy posted this recently, and it's fantastic:
http://adamusatlarge.blogspot.com/2007/04/paper-or-plastic.html
That was hilarious!
I bought a bunch of special grocery bags that I am supposed to take to the grocery store to use instead of using plastic bags. I usually forget them. Maybe this will help me remember them more often.
Deloney -that sucks about your ebay account. A friend of ours had the same thing happen to her.
This posted reminded me of that Stalin quote, "One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic."
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