File : ENVIRON.TXT Author : El Presidente BBS : The Banana Republic BBS August '89 ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY It seems that we're all "environmentally friendly" these days. Manufacturers everywhere scurrying to slap "Environmetally Concious" stickers on their product. Little doplhins adorn toilet rolls, "green" stickers on our aerosole cans, pop stars and authors spreading the word about our world all in the aid of preserving our planet. Strange, isn't it, manufacturers who previously were quite happy to push the planet to hell in a hand cart for the sake of rampant consumerism, now can't move fast enough to be "green". Now, I know why this has happened, I have the answers, it was a bunch of little green aliens, they came to earth and zapped all the directors of all these multinational corporations with a "morals" ray, and know they understand that what they're doing to the environment is wrong... well almost it was really a bunch of little green dollars that zapped all these corporate directors. After all, the fad these days is "green". If you're cool you write on recycled paper (recycled toilet paper???), you recycle your packaging, and you actually read all those stupid tiny little "this product contains..." messages, to check for any idealogically unsound contents. But, really when it all comes down to it, its rather worrying. The public being the fickle, changeable creature that it is, is just as likely to abandon "green" as quickly as it abandoned the cold war, disco duck and feeding the starving millions in Ethiopia (Gee I dunno, I guess they all just stopped starving, right?). And what of the big multinationals? Are we really naive enough to think they really care about the planet? While we're sending our money to the emerging eastern block, helping these crumbling communist powers to stumble (squinting and blinded by all that gleams) into the light of capitalism, who will be watching our "green" producers? Because, when it really comes down to it who gives a flying fuck about the planet? "Gee I dunno, I guess we just cleaned up the planet, right? ...right?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR : El Presidente ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to the WORLD by The Banana Republic BBS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------