Cavey wrote:
And yet amusingly enough though Pod, it's actually you, not I, who clearly has an axe to grind (and for that matter, as far as I can make out, totally intransigent political beliefs in the face of all the empirical evidence to the contrary).
1. The post wasn't about you, it was about cognitive dissonance and forms of persuasion.
2. Please highlight, in bold etc, what I directly wrote, or even some text you think vaguely implies, that you, or anyone else, had an axe to grind?
3. What are my "political beliefs" that I refuse to change "in the face of all the empirical evidence to the contrary"?
4. Given how you've gone off on one, maybe you do have a persecution complex?
re: Bag for life. Is it about the energy?
Landfills are full of plastic bags, because of how many we use, how we dispose off them and that most bags weren't recycleable. Once in the landfill they simply don't go away, because of their lack of biodegradability. Plastic bags will continue to be taken to the tip until plastic becomes a premium item to make and it's more economically viable to recycle/reuse the old bags.
So by using a bag for life, especially a hippie-tastic one made from hemp, you're reducing the number of bags sent to a landfill. And finding a new landfill sites that doesn't annoy people is a hard thing.
I use one as the thin plastic ones are shit and rip.
edit: Hmm JBR said the same thing.