And, I agree it is ironic that so many stores are know selling this “green” reusable bags. Why do they need to produce special bags when most people probably have several reusable bags at home they can already use. Everything, even recycling or producing products out of recycled materials, takes energy so reducing the need for more stuff and reducing production across the board is a key part of truly being more environmentally sound.

Our generation has probably added more toxins and waste to the earth than did the hundreds of generations before us. Unless we have some extreme diasater of Biblical proportions, we are not likely to give up our plastic lifestyle.

On the prairies of Canada, we have very few natural hills on which our children can toboggan in the winter. Many towns have recycled used landfill sites as the Prairie equivalent to hills, so our children can benefit from our ecologically evil lifestyle.