The days pass by and more “Green” grows around our modern society, “we have to save our environment” they say, along with more and more recycling techniques, more earth friendly trends that promises to make our world better, and stop the damage, caused by ourselves, our parents, grandparents and those “evil companies” that sacrifices good air, clean water and healthy land in order to obtain some substantial profits.
It really is exciting, but why is it so expensive and some times inaccessible to become a Green Citizen of the World? Is it because it is not really a consent effort to save our planet, but a profitable and elitist fashion? Or is it because fuel, shipping, technology and operation rises the costs and that is the right price to pay for messing up what mother nature gave us? What do you think?
3 comments:
I think your post brings up a good question - is the whole "Green" movement a fad driven by crazy gas prices or is this really a paradigm shift? And if it is, how do we know?
And that begs a greater sociological question about "what legitimizes a trend?" Will Green = Permanent when we're all recycling and driving hybrids and taking five minute showers as a matter of rote? Or, to be more cynical, is it when people start making money off of people recycling, etc? I hope you'll explore that in your blog, because it's a valid question and not an easy one to answer.
I can imagine the possibility of the green movement becoming an elitist movement – another way for the ‘haves’ to lord it over the ‘have-nots’ and make themselves feel more important in their heads when they know in their hearts that they are not, and – when you get right down to it – probably would starve to death in a month if they had to try to make a living from a minimum wage job! But, I really really hope this does not happen. The ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ breath the same air even if they don’t drink the same bottled water. If we turn this thing around, we all have to work together as children of Mother Earth.
So, Green Pepper, when will you be posting more of your Green muckraking?
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