The Green Thing

[Sebastiaan56]

As nice as nostalgia is we cant go back and there are now a few generations of well trained, dedicated consumers that will determine our future. We are now an economy not in a society locked in a battle with the rest of the globe for economic survival. Unfortunately a lot of our GDP relies on generating waste. And GDP is what counts to our pollies.

Personally I dont miss the sixties, being the only wog kid in an anglo school when the white Awstraylya policy was unravelling had its moments.

[Twisted Tenon]

Back then, people took the bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

Yep Auskart I get what you are saying. I'm a child of the 50's and I believe they were greener. However I believe they were greener because of the waste of the two world wars which preceded the 50's, so green equalled austerity. They weren't good times for me or my family but they were greener.

TT