Going Green has received a lot of talk in the last few years.

Swimming through what is true and what is not can leave many people confused and I am annoyed of all of the misuses of the "Going Green Movement".

Truthfully, this abuse of the movement is helping to consume unrenewable resources and even worse eliminating jobs. The sad part is it has been going on for a very long time.

There are many companies out there proclaiming that they are offering services in the name of going green when in fact they are just saving their selves money and even work.

For example, your bank and/or utility companies possibly has lured you into switching your account statements into emails instead of using the U.S. Postal Service. They state that it saves trees and landfills by minimizing the use of paper.

If anyone was to take the time to think about this, they may discover that the only thing it truly saves is money for these companies.

See paper is manufactured from a renewable resource, TREES!

Trees can be farmed and replanted. Pine trees grow rather fast and are farmed on tree farms throughout our country. Paper can also be recycled, keeping it from filling up landfills.

These companies may not even understand this. They may have been sold on this false "going green" idea also. I honestly doubt it, but I will give them the benefit of the doubt.

The truth is that they save money from not printing the statements, putting them in an envelope, and paying for postage to mail them.

Do you notice the jobs that are suffering by these companies allegedly "Going Green"? Tree farms, paper mills, envelope makers, and the U.S. postal service is struggling from these companies trying to save a few pennies and covering it by claiming to be going green.

Another illustration that helps me tie this in to another legitimate point is those little hand dryers in public restrooms. The little metal plate placed on them states that those electric hand dryers are better for the environment because they cut down in paper cost and landfill space.

Now... I'm not going to buzz off on the absurb claims about saving paper again. No, now I am going to refer to the use of electricity.

Many power plants across the U.S. use coal to produce the power needed to operate those little electric hand dryers. Can it really be "better" for the environment to pump the emissions out of a coal burning power plant to run these hand dryers. The crazy part is it does not work on the first push of the botton inspite of it?

Is it really better to use a non-renewable resource like coal instead of paper that can be made from farmed trees?

I seriously can not believe the wool that is being pulled of everybodys eyes. No, what those little dryers do is save money for the people who try to make you believe these things are better and they help keep those public restrooms free of clutter that someone has to clean up.

My final illustration is the one that chaps my hide the most and terrifies me of the future. This is the one that has been taking place since the industrial revolution. Automated workers.

Automated workers... Those robots and computer programs that take up working class jobs for the sake of conserving industries long term money. They save on wages and even retirement money that the working class uses to try to endure on.

Now before I go to town on a babble about how the industries need or needed to focus on making jobs safer without firing the employees and putting in robots, I will move on and  save that thought for you the reader to ponder over.

Rather let me point out the power needed to run these electronic robots and the amount of coal fueled electric plants spread out across the United States. Just think about it. Wouldn't putting the human workforce back in action help save the environment?

Who are these electrical workers truly helping?

It's not me or the other out of work Americans. No, it's those top executives that think only of oneself, their money, and do not genuinely think about the people at the real heart of their business.

I think the American people need to have their eyes opened during these times of going green because if the truth is seen then this can be a beautiful, environmentally friendly movement.

Supporters of the Green Movement everywhere need to realize that when we as Americans say "No" to using our natural resources and still go about useing them, then the laws of supply and demand is going to make these resources cost more when we do get these resources. In the end we are sending a disturbing message across the world.

That idea is "We Save Our Resources So That We Can Deplete Yours". This is really sad and I do not like how it feels in my gut. We as Americans need to step back and stop thinking about the "Going Green Movement" as a way to save money and ponder what it actually stands for, Saving The Environment.

Going green doesn't stand for making a new light bulb that cost less to energize or turning off the water when we brush our teeth. We can not waste water. Water will make it back into the water cycle. This is Just Saving Money! And Going Green certainly doesn't mean saving money by no longer using renewable resources, exactly the opposite really.

Going Green stands for locating new alternative ways to power our lives with natural resources provided by our planet and the universe.

One way I am going to initiate helping the environment is by looking at alternative power sources to power some of the appliances inside of my home.

I am studying how to build my own solar panels for less than a hundred dollars and in the near future I am going to invest in installing bladeless wind turbines that are now being presented in the United States.

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