Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time

Today’s post is a part of Blog Action Day:

My family and I do our best to be environmentally friendly. Karen is our leader in providing us inspiration and guidance towards being better to the environment. I have to admit that convenience and cost would leave me destroying the environment without even realizing it. It is interesting, and sad, that the most cost-friendly options are often the most environmentally unfriendly. Want to buy organic food because it is not laden with pesticides? Expect to pay up to 300% more than the “regular” product. Want to only purchase items from responsible companies that provide their workers with a living wage and don’t pollute the environment making their product? Better stay out of any big box store with low prices. It often seems that our market is set up to punish people who wish to make informed decisions about what they purchase and consume. Having access to environmentally friendly goods is not enough. These goods must also be affordable. In the continuing class battle that is occurring this is just another way that the middle and lower classes are being held back. Parents should not be forced to decide between paying a bill and buying healthy food for their children and themselves, and yet this is precisely the scenario when organically grown food is so much more expensive than chemically treated food.
The government should level the playing field and remove all corporations off of welfare. The fact that corporations are given tax breaks and subsidies is appalling to me. These giant corporations and factory-farms are not helping the country. They are responsible for the ever growing outsourcing of everything and the undermining of the ability for a working class citizen to earn a living wage capable of supporting a family. How does this relate to the environment? Our government is allowing these mega-corps to outsource everything to countries with little to no environmental regulation. Can’t dump your toxic waste in the USA? Simple, outsource your operation to a country where they don’t care where and what you dump. Sure it may not be in your backyard anymore, but pollution is a global concern and any pollution in the world will affect us sooner or later. We are destroying the world and maybe things will be OK in our lifetime, but do we really want to leave a smoking husk of a world to our children and grandchildren?