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Well, I suppose you are young. In 1975 my mom had us eating home made granola and trekking off to the health food store every Saturday to grind our own peanut butter. We also put bricks in the toilet tank and drove a genuine, original VW beetle.
It's too bad that waste is still building up, though.

I can see her reaction here as it's at times easy to forget that the earth and living green actually began nearly 40 years ago with the original Earth Day with all the hub bub now about living green as if it's never been discussed before due largely in part to the now increasingly obvious signs of global warming.

That said, I do also wonder if the earth isn't just warming on it's own to some extend for this, which it's been known to naturally occur and then cool (hence the ice age) but now with green house gasses such as carbon monoxide et-al, I'm sure it's been exaserbating the problem quite a bit.

It's also becoming increasingly obvious that we can't continue on being wasteful as the earth's resources are definitely finite to a degree by nature and eventually we'll run out, or to put it more succinctly, the Earth can't produce oil at a rate fast enough to keep up with the rate we are using it now and at some point, there won't be enough to go around, then what?

Anyway, What the blurb is saying it quite true, we need to look at the whole picture and see what the consequences of each state is and what can be done to allow for recycling whenever possible.