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