Daphne, of the brilliant Jaded Haven blog, resides in or near the city of Austin, Texas. The city fathers there are planning to ban plastic grocery bags. Here is what Daphne has to say about that:
"These hysterical people don’t have much faith in science, engineering
or technology to tackle new issues or provide cost-effective solutions,
preferring to harass our ignorant politicians into making terrible
decisions that annoy the hell out of rational people like me.
Plastic grocery bags don’t degrade in landfills for five hundred
years. That’s their Chicken Little, end-of-discussion statement on the
topic. Of course, they’re wrong, but when has that ever stopped a
furious ideologue from completing their fruitless mission?
As a matter fact, plastic bags could degrade in landfills within a very short time frame if one very cool science discovery was
deployed. A few years back, a really bright teenager discovered that a
refined strain of microbes could naturally degrade 46% of grocery bag
plastic in six short weeks. I would be shocked if commercial
applications of this discovery aren’t already being aggressively pursued
considering landfills are a huge municipal concern and ripe for
lucrative, tax payer cushioned profit margins.
There are a few other all-natural solutions on the horizon posed to
solve the plastic terror, but in the meantime, there are plenty of
companies offering plastic bags that chemically bio-degrade within five
years. Why wouldn’t the city council ask retailers to exclusively use
those products to combat the immediate landfill problem?
I’ll tell you why, because if you live in Austin or the any of the
surrounding communities, your flimsy plastic grocery bags already meet
that fast rotting standard. Walmart and HEB use them exclusively, Whole
Foods, always the innovator, went the solo brown bag route at least five
years ago.
Those are your three choices to stock up on groceries within a seventy mile radius from downtown Austin.
I can only conclude that Mayor Leffingwell and the craven simpletons
serving as council members are busy trying to burnish their Green
credentials with the Silicon Valley horde of progressive elitists who’ve
infested central Austin over the past ten years.
The main activists leading the anti-bag revolution appear to be an
impoverished crew of devoted Hackensack’s who’ve garnered the financial
support of those who love their expensive luxuries. The hip money
backing this current wave of insanity reside in high six figure, inner
city homes, revel in weird their lack of children (no breeders here!)
and brag over the two hemp bag’s worth of organic groceries they fill
once a week at Whole Foods or the Barton Creek Farmer’s Market. It’s all
about aesthetics, popular lifestyle and the latest cause de jour for
these progressive, environmental vanguards.
None of these pristine people could ever imagine filling a HEB
grocery cart to overflow in order to meet an ordinary family’s food
needs for the week, much less hauling forty reusable bags along to take
the goods home. That just doesn’t happen in their tight little circle
jerk of a world.
It seems they can’t be bothered to acknowledge the extra gas-guzzling
trips that will follow their no bag rule or the industrial waste
produced and energy consumed by the increased manufacture of their
mandated glut of sustainable bags.
I guess I shouldn’t wonder why they adamantly refuse to avail
themselves of pertinent facts on this onerous ban. High brow fantasy is
always preferable to reality when pushing through bourgeoise policies
that will never taint a single progressive front door."
Read more here: http://jadedhaven.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/progressive-ignorance/
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