Are we really going green?
Early today I went to CDR King to buy some DVDs. I was surprised that instead of the usual plastic package, they gave me the items in paper bags.
That’s quite interesting. A store that sells a lot of plastic products are now packaging their merchandise in paper bags. They might have been infected by this global warming thing and help Mother Nature cliches. Bench, for example, has Bawal ang Plastik at Mapapel Tuwing Miyerkules campaign every Wednesday. But doesn’t Bench have been using paper bags, long before this program? SM also has a green revolution by using the green bags and earn points if you have an Advantage Card.
But even if we lessen, if not totally eradicate plastic bags by using paper bags, then are we not also destroying the environment because we would have to cut down more trees? It’s no different from the so-called electronic jeepneys that use battery instead of diesel; electricity produced by burning fossil fuel is used in charging the batteries, which is basically the same as burning gas in the engine.
This essentially, is the first law of thermodynamics. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only change forms.
