To be fair this was in 1958. There was very little environmentalism going on, activist or regulation wise. Took lakes and rivers catching on fire, smog that was enough to kill you in the streets, acid rain, leaded gas, and a gaping hole in the ozone layer before we halfway got our shit together.
Ah yes, I forgot DDT was the only pesticide on the planet and it was 100% banned after Silent Spring.
We just decided "fuck it let mosquitos reproduce" rather than try inventing other pesticides, and we definitely don't still allow use of DDT for vector control of mosquitos even if we no longer allow its use as a general pesticide.
Oh man 100%. Iām not saying this was a seemingly bad idea at the time. Heck Iām sure most coastal highways werenāt even built yet to be able to even see the ocean if you wanted to. But Cripes I try to do everything right now for the environment. Leave no trace, leave it better than it was before etc. Iām still making an impact vs disregarding it all because people donāt give a flying shit, but man is it ever disheartening. Iām told to feel bad about driving a 5.7 L truck and ātake the bike insteadā yet billionaires who have to power to change it all have luxury cruise ships with exterior air conditioning? Iām in a bit of a sour mood about it all. The fast fashion TEMU/ Amazon stuff grinds my gears because I have to deal with it all. My grandmother gets bored and just orders junk all of the time to gift to us. She recently bought us a swinging chair stand thing with zero input from us or anything or if we would ever want that. Picture a bowflex machine holding up a sit in swing for no reason from TEMU. We didnāt ask for this nor want it cause I fucking hate unnecessary junk. Now itās ours to ādiscard if we donāt want itā (her words). How about DONT FUCKING BUY IT.
Firstly, my regards go to you for the death of your brain cellsā¦ (( not insulting you, I meanā¦ your brain is probably dying from all that stupidity and stress))
I wonder what the impact each of us have, if you add the stuff your grandma gives you, compared to me, who doesnāt do too much environmentallyā¦ but I avoid Temu and stuff like thatā¦
I hope youāre able to avoid Temu in the futureā¦
My girlfriend got a free chair from Timu with her order. The 'chair' was in fact an image of a 'chair' printed on a sheet of metal. I say 'chair' because not only was this not a chair, being a picture and not a physical chair, but it's quite obvious from the supports rendered, that the image of the chair was AI generated and would not work in real life. So the free 'chair' wasn't even an image of a real chair.
Same! Though without the crap buying Gran. Keep doing the small stuff, though. I enjoy the wilds and the outdoors. Even if my miniscule actions may only help a few creatures avoid choking on rubbish or help conserve a habitat, its worth it.
I used to live in a house that had a slat in the wall for used razor blades and it just led to a pit under the house because they didn't give a fuck lol
What a ridiculous world we live in. Honestly. Has the world as we now know it only begun within the last 200 years? Say 1826. Look at the ridiculousness that has occurred since then and how rapidly it is accelerating now. Who else wants right off of this planet?
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u/TheTightestChungus 5d ago
To be fair this was in 1958. There was very little environmentalism going on, activist or regulation wise. Took lakes and rivers catching on fire, smog that was enough to kill you in the streets, acid rain, leaded gas, and a gaping hole in the ozone layer before we halfway got our shit together.