Our wasteful economy
Yesterday I saw the ultimate in useless consumerism. A schoolboy I know made an error in his homework and produced an electric eraser - a small battery-powered plastic gadget which moved an attached rubber to and fro when he held it to the page. It saved him having to move his fingers!
Probably, I thought, it had been wired up by a $2-a-day wage slave in some unhealthy factory and then, with container loads of similar junk, transported between continents using expensive fossil fuels pushing out CO2.
I am sure a clever person designed such a thing but, as a world already in trouble, we would be cleverer to reject such trifles which give a week's pleasure and an aeon of pollution.
Diana Evans Lindfield
(Letter from Sydney Morning Herald)
posted by Iqbal Khaldun @ 7:02 AM
5 comments
5 Comments:
Sounds like someone has completely lost all sense of fun and context! I would have loved one of those when I was a kid. And an average piece of supermarket packaging probably contains as much plastic.
You're probably right but it's still seems silly. What happened to the old tyre and stick routine??
Oh yeah, the one that you so happily played with all through childhood?
I want that eraser!
that is the kind of kid who'll grow to use the electric arse wiper
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