Back in the day my parents grew during the Depression in poor families. Then they went through the war when there was rationing. So when I was "coming up" I was constantly reminded: turn off the lights - you are wasting electricity, turn off the water - you are wasting water, etc. We had glass bottles that the milk man would pick up & recycle with new milk. Or you took your glass soda bottles in for the deposit that you had paid when you bought them. Wax milk cartons were used to grow seedlings in or to through food scraps in for the garden. Tin cans were washed & reused. Glass jars were washed & reused. Newspapers were used in the garden, or for cleaning up spills, rolling into fire logs, you name it. The mailman walked the entire neighborhood delivering the mail door to door. We didn't drive our 8cyl cars all over, we had no need too, our lifes took place in our hometowns. And on & on.
Then in the 70s, when I still lived in California we went through a drought. We put bricks in our toilets & we flushed only when it was #2 or so stinky you couldn't stand it.
But you know, plastic bottles & aliuminum cans came along & changed everything. People started working in the city & moving hours away from their homes. Women started working so everyone needed 2 cars. The streets became so scary you couldn't let your children out on them any more so they had to be driven to school. They couldn't play outside anymore so they had to have more and more organized sports that meant the mom's who didn't work had to have another car to drive the kids all over. And snow ball and snow ball.
I hate Women's Liberation, I think it ruined the world as we know it, and this is just one more example. Were it not for Women's Liberation there would be NO hole in the Ozone & life would be simpler. Al Gore stick that in your craw & smoke it!
