tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5303329076469170645..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: The Sheer Numbers Are DevastatingThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-26185447013446740142017-06-28T15:25:45.338-07:002017-06-28T15:25:45.338-07:00The plastics problem can be insidious. There is a ...The plastics problem can be insidious. There is a small area near here that gets its municipal water from a well which has become contaminated. Consequently, locals have to drink bottled water. The municipality has tried several times to clean it up but can't. The alternative, of course, is to extend the municipal pipes a few kilometers so that no one would have to use the contaminated well. Bottled water enables the municipality to avoid the costs involved in a permanent solution or the responsibility for people getting sick thus the problem can be dragged out indefinitely. <br /><br />Multiply this problem by all the boil water advisories across the country and there is a massive pile of single use plastic water bottles.Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-35522322092867565572017-06-28T08:47:29.054-07:002017-06-28T08:47:29.054-07:00I remember well the milk man, Toby. Our house, bui...<br />I remember well the milk man, Toby. Our house, built in the late 30s, had a bay for milk delivery at the side. "Larry," our milk man would open the door, remove the empties, place the full bottles inside and be on his way. <br /><br />It strikes me that the plastics problem is just further evidence of a nihilistic mentality that has come to pervade today's society. We reduce all of these looming catastrophes to our own contribution, thus rendering them so minuscule that we can dismiss change. The only feet a lemming can feel are his own.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-33515781452375185462017-06-28T08:24:27.184-07:002017-06-28T08:24:27.184-07:00When I was a boy there was great fanfare over the ...When I was a boy there was great fanfare over the introduction of the Dixie Cup. Made of paper it was the first <i>disposable</i> container. Prior to the Dixie Cup drinking glasses had to be washed. That was at a time when the milkman made regular deliveries of milk and picked up the empty bottles for washing and reuse. (They were still using horses to pull milk wagons in Calgary at that time but that's another story.) During my lifetime disposable packaging has been a booming business and responsible for massive pollution. <br /><br />Someone suggested on another thread that we should be prepared to make sacrifices in our life styles. I would happily sacrifice disposable packaging. We simply don't need it. We never needed it. Industry wanted it because it enabled de-localizing production. We no longer have a dairy in every community. Tobynoreply@blogger.com