How long do you think this "green" trend will last?

Question

I'm all for recycling and i do when possible. I rinse out plastics and metals (cans and others) and separate them from paper and cardboards, etc. i do that, but everything else sounds crazy. Overall, I don't think this will last. It just comes and goes.

Remember the '70's with the crying Indian on polluting? The late '80s - '92, then it was over by '93? then people when back to throwing bottles, cigarette butts, etc on the ground, no one cashed/cashes in the cans and bottles etc.

i don't think this will stick, and Al Gore is a hypocrite and an idiot.

Answer 1

I thought the GOP was suppose to be the conservatives and not the Dems, but the Dems lead the way on something we need to be conservative about. I hope it never ends.

for the Deniasours, keep trying...your still not winning this fight.

for me it is a moral issue as well.

Answer 2

It's all about raising taxes.

My so-called carbon finger-bob is zero.

I don't own a car, I use a train once every 3 months not used a bus more than 4 times in the past 3 years and prefer to walk everywhere.

I used to take back the bottles, either a 5 or 10 pence tariff refunded.

When I went on a holiday to France in my last Junior year ( I was 11) I purchased a coke from a hypermarket.

I was pointed to a recycling point on the side of the market when I had finished, the bottle went down a belt, was weighed  and a code from the barcode was sent to a till on the side which gave me a receipt.

This gave me 20 pence back, the coke cost me 36 pence.

In French money of course.

How long has Britain had the same opportunity to copy this? 30 years nearly.

Instead they quit recycling allowed the population to get far too large, allowed cheaper goods into our nation and nearly every house in my street has an average of two cars in it's driveway.

We live in a throwaway society, we have become lazy, wasteful pigs.

As for the trend, well once this loser government are got rid of and that threpney bit Cameron starts talking about the right policies then it will slowly disappear into what happens on this planet, which is nature, one period it's cold, then it's hot, then cold.

I remember the 74,75,76 years and they were darn hot summers and freezing winters, the summers got a little cooler, however the last real cold summer I remember was 1982.

Answer 3

1) When they see statistics that says it doesn't do anything

2) It takes up more time than just a few seconds do

3) The cost it takes to do it that way is by far more than what it is now.

4) Famous people stop doing it.

I give it 10 more years. I have always had a car with good MPG, recycled, and tried to get things that are considered "green" before this fad came out. Not going to kill myself to do it, I just like to keep that type of thing in the back ground of my life. When that is normal instead of "whats cool" is when it will last.

Answer 4

It gives every sign of going on forever. It never really went away, not even in the 80s and 90s.

Answer 5

First of all, Al Gore is not seen as the trend setter in the current green movement, he has just helped bring it into the mainstream (he is not even a scientist).

Secondly, I would not call it a trend.  It is more of a habit forming lifestyle practiced by those who have good intentions of improving the current state of the planet.

Answer 6

Amen!! Al Gore is an IDIOT!!

This so called "green" trend will last as long as people are making money off of it.

If you really want to make an impact, research your products before you buy them.  FYI--Just because it is not a petroleum product, doesn't make it "greener."  Ethanol production actually takes a lot of petroleum products.

Recycling can be a good thing, but look into your recycling plants and make sure they pass efficiency tests before you take your cans and plastics in.

Believe it or not, turning off lightbulbs, car pooling to work, walking instead of driving the 2 blocks to the store, and recycling products when you can make the biggest difference in the environment.  

However, just because the USA is a clean country doesn't mean everyone else is.  Our efforts are a drop in the bucket in the fight to save our environment, and until EVERYONE ALL AROUND THE WORLD is on board, our efforts don't have as big of an impact as the could.

Answer 7

I think this time recycling is more than a trend and will last until things have run out then the masses will cry out in their misery that the world is doomed and come to their seances when it's too late. Your right about company's cashing in on the issue claiming that they are all organic and reusable, this will only lead people into a false sense of security but at least for the company's this is good because the masses will just keep on consuming like there is no tomorrow. All we can do is to continue doing our bit and hope that eventually the masses will get a brain cell and start thinking for themselves and realise what is happening.

Answer 8

I hope it's not a trend cause I love it...it makes me feel good

Answer 9

Interest in the environment tends to fluctuate in cycles.  Interest is high right now, but it will probably drop again, then likely rise again, and so on.

Unfortunately, environmental issues are not going away, and in general are getting much worse.  While it's admirable to make personal changes like recycling, it does very little to actually help with the problems that the planet is facing.  

It's vital to remember that we depend on the earth for almost everything, so degrading and destroying it is going to come back to damage humans in a very big way.

Answer 10

Whether Al Gore is an idiot or not does not really have a bearing on whether being "green" is a trend or not.  

Ground pollution is a much different issue than global warming.  If you ask me, this move towards being green is probably more a way of life going forward - so get used to it.  

And to tell the truth, I don't understand most people's cynical reaction to being 'green' (unless you own a coal to electricity plant).  Why wouldn't you want the world that you live in - and your kids will live in - to be the most clean.  I want that for my house, my neighborhood, my city and my world, if possible.  

And the fact that a peope are making money off of "green" technology is a good thing - it creates new markets for the global economy to grow.  And the US has been successful in the last century in its ability to invent new technology.  

I think that being cynical about this issue is a result of the 'politicizing' of it (eg the dems are green) and if you use your common sense...there is no reason you shouldn't be 'green.'

Answer 11

it will last another 10 months or so until a democratic prez is elected.  Then, it will go away for a while until the repubs take over again.  

It's all political.

Answer 12

im 15 and i love recycling cause me and my bro play basketball w/ the cans. it will not last unless america gets slapped

Answer 13

Hopefully forever people dont seem to notice the damages of global warming and they are ruining the earth=[

Answer 14

I hope it sticks around for a long time.  There is too much c**p blowing around this earth as it is.

Answer 15

Hopefully.

Answer 16

Hoping 4 ever

Answer 17

Till we invent a machine that cleans the atmosphere or when we all die. Whichever comes first.

Answer 18

I don't think that the trend will ever go away. The name might change some day, but for people to continue living here the green trend has to expand and last. At this point the green trend effects the economy, there are so many green jobs and tax credits for energy saving. The green trend can not disappear.

Answer 19

I wished the U.S. Govt would have done more than they did

in the seventies.  By that I mean I wish that they started the

recycling projects back than, instead of waiting until  the 80's

to start these programs.

Answer 20

Till it turns brown.