"On the whole, not necessarily, most older people are environmentally conscious because that was the world we were brought up in,'waste not, want not' and 'make do and mend'"And yet we have not passed this belief on to the next generation. We also have, despite our individual beliefs, certainly carried on with the evergrowing consumption and destruction (which began centuries before us, of course). "Waste not, want not" was mostly for individuals, not society nor business. Imagine how much of the warmth from burning hard-gained coal was wasted just going up the chimney, heating the night sky.
David Ainsworth ● 2584d