I remember when plastic grocery bags first came out. The promotion told us to use these bags and "save a tree". So we did. Now we hear on the news and read in magazines that it's our fault, that by using the plastic bags we were told would save the environment, we are the ones that are destroying it and killing animals and fish.
We were told that tap water has so many toxins it might not be safe. All of a sudden there was an abundance of companies selling bottled water. We bought them, believing the hype about bottled water being safer to drink than tap water. Once again we became the culprits killing the environment with these environmentally unfriendly water bottles.
Funny how I don't remember being the one who invented, manufactured, or marketed these environment killers. If these bags and water bottles are so dangerous to the environment, why doesn't the government stop them from being manufactured? The answer is frighteningly simple.
It's called free enterprise. Businessdictionary.com defines free enterprise as "Business governed by the market forces of demand and supply, un-restrained by undue government interference through excessive controls and regulations". So, I guess it's all up to us. It really is about supply and demand. If we stop using them they'll stop making them.
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