Comments on: Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to! http://www.tryingmypatience.com/2008/06/30/please-don%e2%80%99t-print-this-e-mail-unless-you-really-need-to/ Things that make my patience wear thin Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:25:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Zero Pop http://www.tryingmypatience.com/2008/06/30/please-don%e2%80%99t-print-this-e-mail-unless-you-really-need-to/#comment-870 Zero Pop Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:50:22 +0000 http://www.tryingmypatience.com/?p=29#comment-870 Decide to not have any children - that will go farther than ANY OTHER “GREEN” METHOD in reducing landfill, pollution, global warming, resource wastage, etc. Just one baby will produce over a ton of non-biodegradable diaper waste - and if you think you’ll be “green” by going the cloth diaper route, you’ll be using over 22,000 gallons of water (plus detergent) to clean those cloth diapers (not to mention the water, fertilizer & pesticides necessary to spray on the cotton that produces the diapers). So - you can either not print that email (gee, you really sacrificed, didn’t you?) or you can REALLY make a HUGE impact by not having children (who won’t have children, who won’t have children, etc. ad infinitum). Decide to not have any children - that will go farther than ANY OTHER “GREEN” METHOD in reducing landfill, pollution, global warming, resource wastage, etc. Just one baby will produce over a ton of non-biodegradable diaper waste - and if you think you’ll be “green” by going the cloth diaper route, you’ll be using over 22,000 gallons of water (plus detergent) to clean those cloth diapers (not to mention the water, fertilizer & pesticides necessary to spray on the cotton that produces the diapers).

So - you can either not print that email (gee, you really sacrificed, didn’t you?) or you can REALLY make a HUGE impact by not having children (who won’t have children, who won’t have children, etc. ad infinitum).

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