I think it takes little steps to get people gently on the road to big steps.
You said yourself, you're now thinking twice about bagging an orange. That is great. Your thinking is changing in small ways, and if everyone's thinking is similarly affected, the result could be quite significant. Maybe not significant enough to save the entire planet from our species' poor historical choices, but nevertheless. I'm going to err on the side of optimism here.
I started using my own cloth bags about ten years ago, and haven't looked back. I was absolutely thrilled when I was at Trader Joe's with indigoserenity on Saturday and she whipped out her bag-of-bags to use there. Wow! I was impressed. I was thinking I was one of the few weirdo toting a bag-of-bags around to use in stores...but now it's gone and become a mainstream thing. I am very happy about that.
If nothing else, it keeps people like me imagining there is some hope. Humanity may very well still be doomed, but I am glad to find reasons to believe we could still escape our fate.
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Date: 2008-04-22 07:09 pm (UTC)You said yourself, you're now thinking twice about bagging an orange. That is great. Your thinking is changing in small ways, and if everyone's thinking is similarly affected, the result could be quite significant. Maybe not significant enough to save the entire planet from our species' poor historical choices, but nevertheless. I'm going to err on the side of optimism here.
I started using my own cloth bags about ten years ago, and haven't looked back. I was absolutely thrilled when I was at Trader Joe's with indigoserenity on Saturday and she whipped out her bag-of-bags to use there. Wow! I was impressed. I was thinking I was one of the few weirdo toting a bag-of-bags around to use in stores...but now it's gone and become a mainstream thing. I am very happy about that.
If nothing else, it keeps people like me imagining there is some hope. Humanity may very well still be doomed, but I am glad to find reasons to believe we could still escape our fate.