Natural Beauty

And then someone will ask about reusable bags and you’d have to do the study again only to reveal that you need to use the reusable bag like a couple thousand times to offset the carbon emissions it takes to make the reusable bag and make it worth it over disposable bags and that’s not taking into consideration bags breaking before then or being forgotten about completely.

The answer always leads to “it’s incredibly complicated but our current practices are so terrible we would need a full scale restructuring of our economy and practices to such a degree that can literally never happen because our government is lobbied by the people who make money off of said unsustainable practices.”

“Paper or plastic” elides the real questions, like:

Why do I have to own a car to drive to a big grocery store?

Why can’t I live in walking distance to a small grocery store?

Why can’t we all use cargo bikes?

Why am I behind the wheel of a large automobile?

How do I work this?

Is this my beautiful house?

Is this my beautiful wife?

Would I be better off living in a shotgun shack?

Am I right, or am I wrong?

All summer and fall, beavers gather up branches with the leaves they actually eat, and store it in the deep end of the Pond, where the cold water and limited oxygen keep the leaves fresh all winter, so when it's negative 20 outside, a beaver can take a dip out of it's lodge, grab some refrigerated leaves in the (relatively) warmer water and go back to it's cozy little nap hole while everything else is out there suffering and eating bark or the like.

new friendship

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