Eco-bollockings

Do you know what is really starting to piss me off? Eco-bollockings. Everything in the press, on TV, on the fucking net, is perpetually berating us for our dirty ways and bullying us into being green. I know things are pretty crappy, but to be honest, there's not a lot the private individual can do about it. We recycle, but they just chuck it all in the same dustbin lorry anyway. We carefully was all our bottles and tins and plastic before re-cycling. With what? Hot water. Boiled how? Using electricity or gas. So why bother. You can't eat that chicken, it's not organic. How much is the organic one? £10. Oh, I'll just have these parsnips then.
I come into the living room and the telly is on, and the kids are watching some lollypop headed gimp called Tommy Zoom fighting his arch nemesis called 'Polluto' and his cat is called 'Smog'. Just brainwashing my children! Telly off. All kids telly is jam packed with green this and eco that. Our telly is full of grim reminders of how we're all going to end up living in yurts made of recycled nappies, wearing a tunic woven from my own pubes, eating gravel and drinking sea water.
I'm human. I'm really sorry, I'm just trying to get on with life, but according to the media, everything I do is wrong. Everything I eat is fucking up the planet or fucking up me, everything I wear is made by child abusers, I try to keep my house warm and I'm commiting a felony. I'm starting to get a guilt complex about everything I do!
The reality is that the only people who can really make a difference is governments, and not just by handing out a lot of eco-bollockings to the general populace. Stop shouting at me, and do something about it! Conjure up some sort of sustainable infrastructure that we can actually use! Make everyone ride bloody bikes! Just get off my fucking case....

You've just polluted the page with your stinking verbage ;)

I'd say sorry, but I've heard a apologies give you cancer. And kill penguins. And give amphibians cocks AND tits.

Interesting..

I don't think you can commit a felony in the UK as we don't have a fedral government. Lawyers and solicitors feel free to correct me.

seems like you spend too much time watching TV and reading newspapers, Mr General Lucifer Sir.

all pretty environmentally unfriendly..

go ride your bike.

el·o·ny (fěl'ə-nē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. fel·o·nies Law

• One of several grave crimes, such as murder, rape, or burglary, punishable by a more stringent sentence than that given for a misdemeanor.
  
• Any of several crimes in early English law that were punishable by forfeiture of land or goods and by possible loss of life or a bodily part.
  

This part of the post almost dictates that I respond, "but to be honest, there's not a lot the private individual can do about it".

I am going to go for a pint now. If I've calmed down by the time I get back then this is the last post I'll make on this matter!

"The reality is that the only people who can really make a difference is governments"

controversial.

have you heard of "The social contract" a book by Rousseau?

http://www.thevendingmachineproject.co.uk/

We carefully wash all our bottles and tins and plastic before re-cycling. With what? Hot water. Boiled how? Using electricity or gas. So why bother.

There is no need to wash glass, plastics and tins before recycling - I am not aware of any 'eco' edict that asks you either ?

You can't eat that chicken, it's not organic. How much is the organic one? £10. Oh, I'll just have these parsnips then.

You are conflating health issues with environmental issues, this is not uncommon, whether a chicken is organic or not has very little to do with the environment. If you want your children to eat a chicken just how it is - or one containing a little bit of growth hormone, pesticides, herbicides, small amounts of arsenic, colouring agents, chemical stabilzers and so on - then go ahead, there is nothing to stop you and zero significant effect over any of the pressing environmental concerns.

Although I do agree with your general sentiment that eco-evangelism can be annoying and proscriptive, you seem to have a lot of issues confused with each other.

token greenism.
it's worse than not being green.
programs on the telly where rich bankers destroy lives/make money*
then build £500k 'eco-homes' on some green field site so they can feel smug about their 'greenness'
and sit there drinking organic wine from chile and eating organic mange-tout from kenya.

why not just stay in your current house and renovate/insulate/solar-panelise/HTFU and turn the heating down.

*sweeping generalisation, so fucking sue me cunt.

I am ranting some there, but the point I'm trying to make is that everything we do seems to be in some way 'bad'. The chicken thing is kind of in there - less pesticides, herbicides etc comes under the 'kind to the environment' umbrella.
I also realise that individuals CAN make a difference, but vast publicity campaigns screaming at us to stop being naughty eventually just gets depressing. An individual can go out and tirelessly work towards a cleaner world, but there's always millions of twats about driving 100 yards to the school/shops, and although I'm 'doing my bit', I eventually start to feel that there's not much point. I mean, Ted fucking Danson is on the BBC website bollocking us for eating tuna now. Not just dolphin un-friendly tuna, but any tuna!

Cheers for that Ted Danson info.

Everyone can make a difference.
Thinking only the Government can make differences is wrong.
It's the government which is hammering you with these "eco-bollockings".
They need you to think more about it for yourself and more importantly your children.

Try not to feel so pressured by what you see and hear about the environment.
There's a lot of pleasure to be had by considering a better future.
Little efforts count.

I think it would really help if you found out more about what your local council are doing to help your environment before being so against it. Find out what's really happening to recycled items etc.
It's down to all of us to make any difference we can.
And it good to have a healthy conscience.

Nothing wrong with parsnips either!
If you choose to discover why we are being bombarded with such info, I feel you will understand and even want to get involved.

Don't be so against it.