Do you agree with making "going green" seem trendy?

Question

I guess I think it's good that its being put out there to encourage others to start being more conservative with things, I just hate the whole button wearing stuff and bragging. Am I wrong to dislike that?

Answer 1

NO!  Turning green into an excuse to make & sell more junk is just feeding into the consumption of more products.

I think that it is far more powerful to make your statement by living green (not using plastic bags, not buying plastic stuff or plastic laminated buttons, walking instead of driving), than needing to make everyone know you think you are green.

Answer 2

The problem with 'trends' is that they displace rational thought.  They are used to herd cattle, as one socialist agitator explained to me.

Because of this 'trend', we are converting food-growing land to producing fuel to burn in our gas tanks, immediately creating the food shortages that were supposed to be the long-term consequences of 'global warming'.

Because of this 'trend', people are buying trendy cloth shopping bags, made in China (where pollution controls are nonexistant) and shipped all the way over here.  How much fuel and other resources were burned up to get them that 'trendy' bag?  If they were thinking, instead, they would have simply re-used the paper bags they got from the last supermarket trip.  And re-used them again.  Trendiness is resulting in even MORE excessive consumption and pollution!

This particular trend is having very nasty consequences.  I prefer people do some thinking instead.

Answer 3

It is trendy, but if it helps make people aware and get them to change their ways, then I'm all for it. This trend hopefully helped the environment a bit more than if the trend didn't exist.

Answer 4

We are Amish. We plow our fields with mules and we also grow most of our own food. The women make quilts and candles and the men make some furniture which we sell on Hwy 83 N. We walk to church, take no government handouts, manage our own crises, bake our own bread. We have no food recalls, drug OD's or anyone in rehab. Our children are technically home schooled, but know nothing of global warming as it's just a lie anyhow.  Our children know nothing of Political Correctness, either, which is another lie. We DO go to church, pray, reflect, live pure and eat right. We live long, have no divorce, child abuse, sexual dysfunction or financial debt. We pay cash for everything, don't shop for stuff we don't need and have little stresses. We have no credit score, mutual funds, or 401K's We know nothing of the housing situation, or the price of gasoline, as we use neither. There's nothing trendy, we've been doing it for thousands of years.

Answer 5

I never considered it trendy to build a house that heats and cools itself from the sun. We did that way back in 1978, and looked very much like pioneers for 30 years, while our walnut grove was growing.

Nor had it become trendy to power your house with a solar roof, or use a wind turbine rather than depend entirely on the grid.

I look around and find that my transportation cost, and fuel consumption are still in the lowest 5% of the population that have cars.

Trendy? It has not started yet. All that has become trendy is proclaiming it.

Answer 6

My problem with making 'going green' seem trendy is that it actually may make consumption go up.  The whole idea behind going green is to reduce our impact, not to buy tons of stuff that we don't need/want/won't use because it is the more environmentally friendly thing to do.  Know what I mean?

Answer 7

Green becoming trendy is a win/lose--the more people that start actually  going green the better--making this movement main stream will help to bring people to the cause. However, I am frustrated by the massive consumerism that is happen. A lot of ungreen companies are making money off "green" products--too bad there can't be some kind of regulation oversite to ensure that green products are in fact green and being sold responibly by green certified companies.

Answer 8

i agree to being green but i mean who wants to wear that stuff? you know?

Answer 9

I am young and healthy enough to ride my bicycle to most errands; not everyone can do this.  I have to get to work; BUT I look around and I don't see many or ANY other bicyclist on the road, and I'm not talking about riding around with smile around the park or the serious sport rider - I'm talking about bikes being parked out in front of the local grocery store or Target.  Seriously, count how many cars there are in the parking lot and how many bikes... Now count how many bikes go in and out relative to cars...  Got any money, I bet you the percentage is like 0.025%, I'm not kidding, prove me wrong...

Answer 10

making going green trendy is the best thing thats happened in a while. Its making people join in and be environmentally aware.

Answer 11

It is a good thing, but yea I agree with you, it is a trendy thing. I am getting tired of it too. I hate when the celebrities get on the band wagon too, it makes me want to vomit, especially since they do not even live in the "real world" and are usually the least conservative.