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Don’t fall Victim To The Myths Of Going Green

Going Green has begotten a lot of recognition in the last few years.

Swimming through what is real and what is not can leave many people ill informed and I am annoyed of all of the misuses of the “Going Green Movement”.

Truthfully this misunderstanding is helping to consume unrenewable resources and even worse reducing jobs. The depressing part is it has been going on for decades.

There are many companies out there proclaiming that they are offering services in the name of going green when in reality they are just conserving their own money and even work that they should be paying others to do.

For example, your bank very likely has lured you into switching your account statements into emails instead of using the U.S. Postal Service. They profess that it saves trees and landfills by minimizing the use of paper.

If anyone was to take the time to think about this, they will find that the only thing it truly saves is money for the bank.

See paper is formed from a renewable resource, TREES!

Trees can be farmed and replanted. Pine trees grow rather fast and are produced on tree farms throughout our country. Paper can also be recycled, saving it from filling landfills.

The banks may not even realize this. They may have been sold on this fake “going green” idea also. I honestly doubt it, but I will give them the benefit of the doubt.

The truth is that they save money from not printing the statements, putting them in an envelope, and paying for postage to mail them.

Do you see the jobs that are suffering by them theoretically going green? Tree farms, paper mills, envelope makers, and the U.S. postal service is suffering from these banks trying to save a few pennies and covering it by claiming to be going green.

Another example that helps me focus this in to another true point is those little hand dryers in public restrooms. The little metal plate posted on them declares that those electric hand dryers are much better for the environment because they cut back on paper cost and landfill space.

Now I’m not going to go off on the absurb claims about saving paper again. No, now I am going to talk about the use of electricity.

Many power plants throughout the U.S. use coal to produce the power needed to run those little electric hand dryers. Can it really be “better” for the environment to pump the emissions out of a coal burning power plant to run these hand dryers. The crazy part is it doesn’t work on the first push of the botton anyway?

Is it really more fitting to use a non-renewable resource like coal instead of paper that can be produced from farmed trees?

I really can not believe the wool that is being pulled of everyones eyes. No, what those electric hand dryers do is save money for the persons who try to make you believe these things are better and they help keep those public bathrooms free of litter that someone has to clean up.

My final example is the one that chaps my hide the most and terrifies me of the future. This is the one that has been going on since the industrial revolution. Automated workers.

Automated workers… Those robots and computer programs that take up working class jobs for the sake of saving industries long term money. They save on wages and even retirement plans that the working class use to try to survive on.

Now before I go to town on a tangent about how the industries needed to focus on making jobs safer without firing the employees and putting in robots, I will move on and  save that thought for you the reader to ponder over.

Instead let me bring up the thought in you to think about the power needed to run these electrical robots and the amount of coal powered electric plants spread out across the United States.

Who are these electrical workers truly helping?

It’s not me or the other out of work Americans. No, it’s those top executives that think only of oneself, their money, and do not genuinely care about the people at the real heart of their business.

I think the American people need to have their eyes opened during these times of going green because if the truth is seen then this can be a beautiful, environmentally friendly movement.

Supporters of the Green Movement everywhere need to realize that when we as Americans say “No” to using our natural resources and still go about useing them, then the laws of supply and demand is going to make these resources cost more when we do get these resources. In the end we are sending a disturbing message across the world.

That concept is “We Save Our Resources So That We Can Deplete Yours”. This is really dismal and I do not like how it feels in my gut. We as Americans need to step back and stop thinking about the “Going Green Movement” as a way to save money and ponder what it really stands for, Saving The Environment.

Going green does not stand for making a new light bulb that cost less to energize or turning off the water when we brush our teeth. We can not waste water. Water will make it back into the water cycle. All of this is Just Saving Money! And Going Green definitely doesn’t mean saving money by no longer utilizing renewable resources, exactly the opposite in fact.

Going Green stands for discovering new alternative ways to power our lives with natural resources provided by our planet and the universe.

One way I am going to begin helping the environment is by researching alternative power sources to power some of the appliances inside my home.

I am discovering how to build my own solar panels for less than a hundred dollars and in the near future I am going to invest in setting up bladeless wind turbines that are now being presented in the United States.

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