Virtue signalling trumps reality, every time; especially for our latest generation of idiots

Drinking the Kool-Aid

Millennials, Gen-Zers won’t date someone who doesn’t recycle: survey

[A]fter surveying 1,332 young Americans, Cluttr found that a whopping 47% of 18- to 29-year-olds wouldn’t want to be romantically involved with someone who neglects to recycle. In addition, 45% would reject a person that uses an excessive amount of single-use plastic.

If that wasn’t eco-conscious enough, … 69% of youths would boycott a brand for not adhering to green business practices, while 67% believed that global warming is a serious man-made threat. In fact, 71% even felt that the environment warranted more concern than the economy, which recently suffered its worst blow since the Great Depression amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite their enthusiasm for the environment, the so-called greenest generation is also one of the biggest contributors to the global electronic waste epidemic. The study found that “3 out of 5 people don’t know what e-waste means” while over half of the survey participants were oblivious to its toxic impact on the environment.

Even more alarming, 44% of the would-be eco-warriors don’t know how to “properly donate, resell or recycle tech” while “36% didn’t know if their items were recyclable,” according to the survey.

Ask a millennial, or even the average adult, whether they’re willing to forego the lithium-ion batteries that power their cellphones and Priuses because the cobalt used for the production of lithium-ion is mined in Congo, at horrendous cost to child laborers and the environment. Or whether they’re aware that the rare earths, also required for their electronics and windmill blades are mined in Tibet with ruinous effect on the environment. They’ll express surprise and dismay, then pick up their iPhone to call their friends and arrange their next ANTIFA meet-up.

Or ask them how much CO2 is spewed into the air from the electrical plants needed to supply the tremndous energy demands of our computer and cellphone age. Another blank stare. Guaranteed. They’ll take a long slug from their bottled water, shrug, and toss their plastic bottle into the recycling bin, satisfied that they’d assuage their guilt, and want to boast that they’ve blocked another natural gas pipeline.

Why doesn’t single-stream recycling work? Because Americans toss whatever’s made of paper, plastic, or glass is not sorted, it’s thrown into one bin: plastic shopping bags, which aren’t recyclable and jam recycling plants’ conveyor belts, broken glass, broken computers, etc. The dirty pizza boxes from college parties contaminate the paper destined for recycling: so much so that China, the major buyer of our trash, now refuses shipments from America, thereby destroying the market – it’s the incinerator or landfill for waste paper and cardboard now.

But no matter, these kids are obeying what their teachers told them to do, and aren’t they just so smug, happy and virtuous.

Of course, it’s not just our youngest illiterates who’ve fallen for the green machine: Nearly half of Americans would stop supporting a company if they [sic] weren’t sustainable

Nearly half of Americans say they would never shop with a company again if they learned they weren’t being as sustainable as possible, according to new research.

Another one in three would even take to social media and voice support against those companies and encourage others to not shop with them anymore either.

A recent survey of 2,000 Americans showed recycling and bold action toward sustainability means a lot to the modern consumer.

It’s so important, in fact, that the average American would even pay 26 percent more than retail price if it meant the product was completely sustainable. [Your editor calls bullshit – so do statistics of actual consumer behavior. Price over virtue dictates buying, even among the most woke of our teens.]