electroken
Elio Addict
While overall it's a nice tirade, there are a couple of problems with it:
Some of the good old days weren't very "green" at all. It was common practice to pour used motor oil into the ground. Here, in the Naugatuck River valley you could tell what the metal finishers upstream were plating by what color the river ran that day. I, for one, don't miss that.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks.
This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling's. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
This is still a requirement in the Shelton, Connecticut school system. Some of the books might actually be from "the good old days".
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. It's true that my parents had one television in 1968. It had a 25" screen and drew 380 watts of power. Today, the three televisions in my house use a total 260 watts. That's if all 3 are on simultaneously, and they aren't.
And we didn't need a
computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
OK, this is a bit of a nit-pick, but GPS satellites are in medium-Earth orbit at a bit less than 13,000 miles altitude.
Some of the good old days weren't very "green" at all. It was common practice to pour used motor oil into the ground. Here, in the Naugatuck River valley you could tell what the metal finishers upstream were plating by what color the river ran that day. I, for one, don't miss that.