Something to ponder

Something occurred to me last night as I was falling asleep. (I think of these things at the oddest times).
I was thinking about the reuse part of "reduce reuse recycle". If everyone kept things to reuse in their homes, for example plastic bottles, then they would have to get more oil out of the ground to make new plastic (which would be bad for the environment) because they don't have as much recycled plastic to work with because everyone is keeping it. And if everyone did it with cans, they wouldn't have as much recycled metal to work with and they would have to mine more metal from the ground, which damages the environment. The same is true for paper and cutting down trees.
If everyone recycled everything they bought, then they would only have to take a little oil or metal from the earth to make new plastic or cans because they have so much recycled stock to work with.

I think a lot more emphasis should be put on "reduce" and "recycle" than on "reuse".

People never learn

You would think that with all this talk about global warming (or more accurately - climate change), and about how bad things like driving gas guzzling SUV's are for the environment, that people are finally getting the message. It would certainly seem that way, when you look at the fact that sales of smaller, more fuel efficient cars have been up in the last couple of years, and sales of gas guzzlers like pick up trucks and SUV's have been down. But now that the price of gas is falling again, people are getting rid of their small fuel efficient cars and buying gas guzzlers again. It was beginning to look like people were getting the message, and starting to actually care about the environment, but apparently most people just don't give a crap. That is so unbelievably sad and pathetic. By the time people realize the error of their ways, it will be too late.