Quote of the Day: Lisa Kogan on Environmental Arithmetic
by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA on 03. 3.08
Photo credit: John Ritter
I like a plastic bag and a bottle of water as much as the next self-involved me monkey, but it takes 430,000 gallons of oil to manufacture 100,000,000 grocery bags, and if I were capable of doing even the most basic arithmetic I'd say—well, who are we kidding? I'm not capable of doing even the most basic arithmetic—just know that we're in great danger of making Al Gore really, really mad.
—Advice columnist Lisa Kogan in the March 2008 issue of O the Oprah Magazine
Why not adopt the German model and eliminate grocery bags altogether? It does not dissuade shoppers, on the contrary. They respect this philosophy and bring their own *baskets*.