The trendiness of going green.

[Sirrus]

A thought occurred to me the other day: Do you think that Americans are going to be able to truly "go green" until it isn't a trendy thing to do?

Think about it. If civil rights was a trendy thing, then after segregation was ended in America, restaurants would be advertising: "Blacks served here!".

My point is that it seems like going green isn't going to really work in a meaningful way until we've been hardwired to not even think of an alternative way of living. Now, that doesn't seem like something positive, but I think at this point the large majority of children are being brought up to not even think of any other possible way to treat black people other than equal to them at a basic human level (by that I mean, if the kid is an starfish, he's an starfish no matter what color his skin is and vice versa). In the context of going green, we'd end up in a few generations saying "Wow, at one point we used plastic bottles that never biodegrade and usually don't get recycled?" We're getting closer with recycling: at this point it's almost involuntary for me to recycle a bottle of coke or a piece of paper when I'm done with it.

So basically, we're not going to be able to go green until we don't think of it as "going green".

[Ad Bot]

[Ladios]

You sound philosophical.
Write a report on this, present it to a crowd of college students in New York and earn like $400 maybe?
I dunno how those things work.

[RedSaturn]

No, we are the largest leaders of fast food, we dispose of oils fats and waste the wrong way.
We have so much factorys and polution. We are forgeted.

[MasterCookie]

Some one didn't read.

[RedSaturn]

Some one didn't read.

I did, I was simply giving an opinion

[MasterCookie]

He wasn't saying we need to go green, and it sorta sounded like you were responding to that.

[RedSaturn]

He wasn't saying we need to go green, and it sorta sounded like you were responding to that.

Oh, no, I was saying we couldn't not responding to him.

[MasterCookie]

You're confusing me now?????

Say that out loud and tell me if that sounds right?

Ontopic: Sirrus can I use that for my speech I'm suppose to do on Friday?

[RedSaturn]

You're confusing me now?????

I was saying even if we wanted to, we couldn't

[Sirrus]

You're confusing me now?????

Say that out loud and tell me if that sounds right?

Ontopic: Sirrus can I use that for my speech I'm suppose to do on Friday?

you can use the idea, but don't copy my words.

[Zaem]

I think there's a flaw here.

The basis of not realizing there are alternatives, that trained naivety, would occur a series of generations after a procedure is adopted within the local society as the standard norm, however that generation would have had to be introduced to said protocol first; this is accomplished mainly through school programs and responsible parenting, but what about people who were not introduced to such protocols at an early age? I think that in order for the situation you described to take effect, public awareness programs would have to be improved.

In the business and production centers, the "going green" phenomenon is bound to occur because its the trendy thing to do. Many companies are producing eco-friendly products because that's a major concern these days and people will buy it because it helps their conscience. As soon as eco-friendly is out and another trend is in, companies are going to stop worrying about eco-friendliness so much and will cut corners in order to make the product parallel to the current trend.

[Sirrus]

I think there's a flaw here.

The basis of not realizing there are alternatives, that trained naivety, would occur a series of generations after a procedure is adopted within the local society as the standard norm, however that generation would have had to be introduced to said protocol first; this is accomplished mainly through school programs and responsible parenting, but what about people who were not introduced to such protocols at an early age? I think that in order for the situation you described to take effect, public awareness programs would have to be improved.

In the business and production centers, the "going green" phenomenon is bound to occur because its the trendy thing to do. Many companies are producing eco-friendly products because that's a major concern these days and people will buy it because it helps their conscience. As soon as eco-friendly is out and another trend is in, companies are going to stop worrying about eco-friendliness so much and will cut corners in order to make the product parallel to the current trend.

It's really a tricky balance between "not hyping it" and "talking about it". Once something is commonplace, it's passed down from parent to child. The trick is getting it to become commonplace.

[Zaem]

But making it commonplace will be difficult if the parents don't do it and the children don't learn it from them, the best thing to do is try to influence them through a source outside their family such as television; putting some eco-friendly messages into their Saturday morning cartoons might be a good place to start.

[Blastdown]

Fusion Fall.
Go green.

[pixl]

Sirrus can go through the green glass door...