Over at Treehugger is yet another post on the EVEEELS that pod coffee is for mother gaia (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Data shows that, despite the environmental implications and high cost of single-use coffee pods, people continue to buy them more than ever before. They’re calling it “the Clooney effect.” Single-use coffee pods are flying off supermarket shelves at a faster rate than ever before, possibly aided by actor George Clooney’s persuasive good looks in European Nespresso advertisements since 2006 and, more recently, in the United States.
…This is sad news for those of us who wish that more sustainable consumer practices would infiltrate the mainstream. There is nothing
green about coffee pods, no matter what the manufacturers tell you. The recycling claims are mostly bogus, as the used pods are a mix of plastic, aluminum foil, and coffee grounds that must be separated by hand in order for recycling to occur. It remains, as Lloyd wrote earlier, “design for unsustainability,” regardless of how manufacturers want to spin it.
So sad, they’re upset that we all aren’t listening and obeying our Green Betters and doing things the old fashioned way. They are quite disturbed that modernity allows the individual more choices in how to spend their time – pushing a button is FAR worse than doing the centuries old way of percolating it et al. Not only that, but how DARE we spend more of our own money than we “should” (in their estimations) in exchange for that “convenience”.
Now, I have no dog in this fight – I don’t drink coffee but TMEW does and she prefers spending our money for more convenience. I don’t have a problem with that – she asks for little so when she shows a preference for something like this, my attitude is “heck, if it makes her happier, why not?”.
Well certainly the TreeHuggers are just about the “not”:
One person, Vindaloo Bugaboo, left this comment that pretty well summarizes their outlook on “pod people”:
(A) people are lazy—so lazy, in fact, that the process of making french press or even auto-brewed coffee in a programmable brewer is beyond their preference;
(B) people don’t really care about the environmental aspects of their own behaviors despite lip-service to the contrary.
Yeah, rather condescending. So of COURSE I had to give a little lip:
To [your point] (B) – No, they don’t care and the vast majority don’t even give the lip-service you mentioned. Why?
They just want to live their lives and to be just left alone by those “others” that keep harping on how they “need” to change their lives so they would live up to those “others” expectations.
Yeah, I expect to get banned again (or at least, my comment to get deleted)
