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Save the Planet! Just do what we used to do.

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2 years ago

June 21, 2021

Jim Cathcart

How do we Save The Planet?

Here’s what my TI inc pocket calendar recommends. (I think there are better ways.)

Adjust your thermostat, Save water, Buy energy-efficient appliances, Replace incandescent bulbs, Turn off lights, Recycle/Reuse, Use less paper, Use public transportation, Eat green, Reduce food waste. They call this “10 ways to help save the planet.” How about reduce hateful behavior, crime, vandalism. Learn to pick up after yourself, be a good neighbor and a responsible citizen? But, I digress…

You First!

Why are today’s youth and the political left concerned about human influence on the Climate but not about their own behavior? They’ll drive a Tesla to Starbucks plus replacing their iPhone 11 and throwing away the water bottle they just bought. This makes them environmentally responsible? I don’t think so.

Read the following article to the end please.

(Author unknown, but I’m grateful for a well-written piece.)

Too bad we weren’t Green when we grew up!

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment. The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, “We didn’t have this ‘green thing’ back in my earlier days.”

The young clerk responded,

“That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”

The older lady said that she was right. Our generation didn’t have the “green thing” in its day.

The older lady went on to explain:

Glass Bottles

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

Reused Bags

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. School books were used again by each new class until they were worn out completely. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper covers.

Walking

We walked up stairs (which helped keep us fit) because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store (or rode our bicycles) and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

Cloth Diapers & Clothes Lines

We washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days.

Recycled Clothing

Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. And we got underwear, socks and the like as Christmas presents.

Reduced Energy Needs

We had one TV in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances.

Packaging Material

When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Yard Work

Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. (And we used a rake, not a noise-making leaf blower.) We exercised by working so we didn’t need to drive to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

No Plastic Bottles

We drank from a fountain (or a garden hose) when we were thirsty instead of using a styrofoam cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water.

No Disposables

We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

Public Transportation

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family’s $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the “green thing.”

(now my words)

We repaired our cars instead of just replacing them.

Everyone knew how to change a tire, change the oil, check the fluids and where to buy parts. Driveways were our repair shops, we were “shade tree mechanics.” Your neighbors probably had the nuts, bolts, washers, or clamps you needed somewhere in their garage.

But isn’t it sad the current Climate Warriors lament how wasteful we old folks were despite their wasteful habits that are hundreds of times more harmful?

2021 BTW, how many millions of masks that were useless against Covid19 are now filling landfills and littering our streets? Isn’t it time we stopped doing what makes us FEEL useful and instead returned to what actually is known and proven to work?

Let’s Make America Good Again.

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Jim Cathcart

Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE is an Executive MBA Professor, Author of 21 books, Hall of Fame Professional Speaker, Top 1% TEDx video (2.4 million views), US Army veteran, Singer/Songwriter, and Lifelong Motorcyclist. He is known as "Your Virtual VP" for his Advisory/Mentor work with organizations worldwide. Based in Texas...and proud of it!

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All pretense that the mainstream media strives for objectivity is gone

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Jeff Davidson

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The grandest mistake the American populace committed in the last half-century was assuming that our media was even somewhat fair and balanced. Likewise proceeding in the last two decades as if the Internet giants had no dog in the political arena proved to be a mistake of historical proportions.

Today because so many people, still, are conditioned as such, the mere fact that say, a CNN, has a website prompts some people to believe that the network have something of value to offer. Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, whose focus is classics and military history, says that the New York Times is “a shell of what it used to be.”

Nothing Objective to Offer

The paper always leaned to the left, since it’s founding, but it did an intermittently semi-decent job in reporting the facts. The Times sent their reporters out to the streets to do hard-core reporting. The mission was to gather relevant data, identify sources, talk to people, find eye witnesses, speak to bonafide experts, attain corroboration, and then when they were sure of what they had written, submit the story or feature.

Their articles probably never represented a 50-50 balance – perhaps 55-45 or 60-40 in favor of the left. Today, no rational media observer would contend that the balance is 70-30, or even 80-20. Study after study reveals, say, in the case of covering Donald Trump, that 92% of all features are negative, and that is not to say the remaining 8% are positive. Mostly, they’re neutral.

If you are a Trump or DeSantis supporter, or a Republican running for Senate or the House of Representatives, for governor in your state, or for any other position of prominence, you simply cannot expect a fair shake from the press, nationally, and in most cases locally. Indeed, you’re likely to be demonized, endlessly, over issues for which Democrats receive a free pass.

Compromised to the Breaking Point

The New York Times and The Washington Post of old, as biased as they might’ve been, at least offered some semblance of up-to-date information, with facts and figures when they had them, and timely reporting as situations unfolded. Hansen remarked that today the people who run these newspapers are trading on the decades of hard work and the reputations built up over more than 100 years.

Those who put in the seed work are dead and gone and thus, obviously, have no say about what’s going on today. The Times and the Post, in less than a generation, are destroying their own reputations. The people who currently run these ‘news’ organizations are dragging them down at warp speed and don’t even recognize the damage that they are doing.

By 2030, what is now a shell of an organization will be less so, and it wouldn’t be too wild to predict that the Times could totally morph into something else. The Post is not far behind in devising its own demise.

The Pretense is Gone

Each of the countless newspapers that feed off of these two publishing giants suffer as well. All such pretense that the mainstream media strives for objectivity is gone. The good news, if you could call it that, is everyone on the right is now vitally all aware that this has happened.

Those who strive for integrity in elections, those who are on the right, and those who are routinely demonized by the left, understand what’s occurring to the nth degree. It’s not fair, but to know what you face is a benefit of sorts.

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