Plastic

I recall the 1967 classic movie The Graduate wherein Dustin Hoffman was encouraged to go into "plastic" at his graduation party by a friend of his parents.  I think of that and the M.P. Tuna and her aversion to plastics.  And, lo and behold, a Magic Plastic Tuna plastic sighting this morning.  Exited the building with a Rubbermaid style bowl, handed it off to a friend and entered the building sans bowl but with a styrofoam egg carton.  Yikes...Holy Recycling, Batman.  Good to know some people practice what they preach.  It may be she needs some social engineering to affect positive change; that she has merely surrendered to the inevitable plastic gods.  But, no.  Smoking as a form of social engineering=bad...outlawing cars and plastic on campus=good social engineering.  Don't look for logic here.  And I quote, so you may judge the issue for yourselves:

If the university cared about anything beyond its bottom line – if they were truly concerned about our health and safety and the air we breathe, they would do something about the amount of plastic this campus generates.  And they would prohibit cars on campus.  Plastic pollution and car exhaust contribute more to  environmental degradation, of all kinds, than cigarette smoke.  But there’s no monetary incentive to prohibit these toxins – in fact quite the opposite.  This phony moral outrage is over smoking is just corporate greed posing as civic responsibility.   

My font here is failing me, but the spirit is strong.  I just don't understand this line of reasoning.  And as long as she owns a car and drives the roads, this reasoning is most hypocritical.  I would welcome the opportunity to share some rationality with The Magic Plastic Tuna but that ship has long since sailed.  Communication over, as she has said to me.  Practice what you preach, doll face...unload the car and all its plastic and unload the bike with its petroleum based tires and walk.  No plastic, no styrofoam egg cartons.  And what about the pernicious aspect of paper?  Let's go totally over the top.  Paper comes from trees, the degradation of the forests.  The process of producing paper using chemicals is harmful in and of itself.  Recycling helps some.  Like recycling plastic.  Okay, I am going off another slippery slope.

Bottom line: if you are going to rage against the machine make sure you aren't actually part of the machine.