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the next Beauty Loves TSV is on the 21/02/20
You are absolutely right & it's a major concern of mine. After much searching I've found a few companies online that put products in glass or bamboo containers & send them out in cardboard boxes filled with pellets that can be composted or even dissolved in water, watching this delights our toddler granddaughter. Our dentist has a box for all dental plastic, however, I've found a toothpaste on eBay that's in metal tubes & cotton floss that I put in the bonfire as even this could harm birds. Because I also bang the drum about palm oil I've reduced the beauty companies I buy from to ten, a drop in the plastic polluted ocean but at least I can live with myself.
Great to hear...If only everyone did more.
I feel the 'elephant in the room' with climate change/environmental slaughter is relentless population explosion. Less of us = less consumerism < waste <environmental trashing="" -="" it's="" not="" rocket="" science="" fgs.=""
Yet no one has the courage to put it out there for fear of backlash from the childbearing majority, or the human rights people. What about the 'rights' of nature, fauna, flora,more of which become extinct on a daily basis & suffer incessant trauma from all the houses, schools, hospitals required to house more & more & more& more humans? (2.7 billion?)
I cannot think about this too much, I'd go insane with worry.
You are absolutely right & it's a major concern of mine. After much searching I've found a few companies online that put products in glass or bamboo containers & send them out in cardboard boxes filled with pellets that can be composted or even dissolved in water, watching this delights our toddler granddaughter. Our dentist has a box for all dental plastic, however, I've found a toothpaste on eBay that's in metal tubes & cotton floss that I put in the bonfire as even this could harm birds. Because I also bang the drum about palm oil I've reduced the beauty companies I buy from to ten, a drop in the plastic polluted ocean but at least I can live with myself.
Can you list those companies @Twilight?
Thanks a lot
Isn’t this a repeat? If not, then it’s almost identical to a previous gadget they’ve done.
AE you're absolutely right. I remember the Duke of Edinburgh decades ago on a trip to a 3rd world country, saying 'haven't these people heard of contraception". Just today on the news, disturbing pictures of newly born babies in the Syrian war having no food, with journalists reporting that the world doesn't care. We do, but what can we do ? The mother of the new born babe had 2 other young children, yet here she was giving birth to another in a war torn environment. What sane person would do that ? her 2 other children were also suffering, but it didn't stop her having another. And yes, I know its 'cultural', but it just makes me rage. Rant over.You are quite right, of course. No matter how green we become more people obviously equals more housing, food, water and energy.
David Attenborough did speak out about people having too many children a year or two ago.
I must admit those programmes about people having 20 kids and counting make me feel sick for the future. I have a few friends that have not wanted or had children and have taken huge amounts of flack for it. Some people have actually had a go at them about their contraceptives causing a problem (hormones getting into the water/condoms going to landfill or not being vegan condoms etc.). Some have been quite nasty about it. All have been new vegans that wear non-degrading plastic shoes that can't be repaired and break quickly, carry plastic handbags and have several kids between them. It's like becoming vegan has suddenly given them superior race capabilities!
You can't lump all vegans in together like you can't lump all childless couples together - my brother and his wife couldn't have children and dearly wanted them (though my cousin, aged 44, had been sterilised after her two kids completed her family but still ended up pregnant after marrying her second husband who'd had a vasectomy after his two kids!). I think my brother would have decked anyone accusing him of polluting the earth with contraception when they were child-bearing age.
Life is odd but what is absolutely clear is that the planet will struggle to cope with much more of it.
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My rant also. Why do people here, with no job, home, & reliant on benefits with children then go on to have more & more? It is not the job of the state to support everyone's child. If you can't afford to pay for children, don't have them.AE you're absolutely right. I remember the Duke of Edinburgh decades ago on a trip to a 3rd world country, saying 'haven't these people heard of contraception". Just today on the news, disturbing pictures of newly born babies in the Syrian war having no food, with journalists reporting that the world doesn't care. We do, but what can we do ? The mother of the new born babe had 2 other young children, yet here she was giving birth to another in a war torn environment. What sane person would do that ? her 2 other children were also suffering, but it didn't stop her having another. And yes, I know its 'cultural', but it just makes me rage. Rant over.
i agree it’s infuriating but in places like Syria I don’t think women have the same protections or education as here. They probably have to do as they are told by men.My rant also. Why do people here, with no job, home, & reliant on benefits with children then go on to have more & more? It is not the job of the state to support everyone's child. If you can't afford to pay for children, don't have them.
My rant also. Why do people here, with no job, home, & reliant on benefits with children then go on to have more & more? It is not the job of the state to support everyone's child. If you can't afford to pay for children, don't have them.