Greenwashing

[STEED]

Have you had it up to here with Greenwashing? Well I've had a gut full of this claptrap more so from my government which is trying to make me swallow this guff like cheap flat beer.

What is Greenwashing?
Here you go >>> http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Greenwashing

But my gripe dose not stop with them, far from it. Bloody supermarkets are now charging for plastic bags but here is my point, remember the time when you bought a newspaper that was not wrapped up in a plastic bag, I do. And who was it who said we don't want the newspaper extras all over the place? The super markets thats who, talk about double standards.

[XabbaRus]

I don't have a problem with TEsco et al charging for plastic bags. Lidl and Aldi have been for ages.

I think we should go with the American paper bag. Stronger and holds more thus less per shop and more recyclable.

Though saying that some of these green groups I am a bit cynical towards.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Greenwashing bears an uncanny resemblance to politics. It doesn't matter if you can fix the problem as long as it looks like you are trying to fix it.

[Sailor Steve]

I think it was the 1974 movie The Groove Tube, that there was one sketch in the form of a commercial. On the screen was a picture of a river by a factory, full of garbage, while the voice-over expained that this company had recieved a lot of flak for their bad environmentalism. It ended with the voice proudly saying "Now, after five years and twelve million dollars, we came up with this ad campaign."

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

Greenwashing bears an uncanny resemblance to politics. It doesn't matter if you can fix the problem as long as it looks like you are trying to fix it.

Bingo . I don't think it matters what you do, the greenies will find fault with it.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Bingo . I don't think it matters what you do, the greenies will find fault with it.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall to some of these so-called greenies, to see if in private they practice what they preach.

[Zachstar]

Greenwashing is what is killing the green movement.

The green movement is supposed to involve practical solutions to reducing footprint.

Long Term Savings + Long Term Environmental Reduction = Win

But greenwashing idiots have managed to mangle that so bad that we end up doing more long term damage.

"Ya ill buy this SUV with my husband's/wife's hard earned pay and then pay to have some trees planted somewhere" When the amount of trees needed to offset that SUV use is much more than "a few"

The sad thing is because of this bull**** the movement has failed. Now china is taking up what little slack we do let on and it's people are buying gas hogs like there is no tomorrow. They cant even clean up the air for the most important event in decades.