A wise lesson for young people ?

• In the supermarket a young cashier told an older woman that it is better she take or own bag in case than she take every time a plastic bag . Because these plastic bags are not good for the environment, she said .
• The older woman apologizes and explained: we don't have that green stuff when I was young ! The cashier replied, ” Yes, and that is exactly our problem today , your generation did not care about saving the environment for future generations !”
• Yes, she was right, our generation doesn't have that green stuff in our days. Then we had milk in bottles, soft drink in bottles and beer in bottles . When there were empty and rinsed we brought they back to the store . The shop sent it back to the factory . The factory sterilized and refilled these bottles . We really did recycling !
  But we did not have that green stuff in those days !
• We walked on stairs, because we did not have possessed escalators and elevators in each building . We walked to the supermarket and we did not take every time 300 HP machine , every time we had to go 2 blocks.
  But she was quite right, we did not have that green stuff in those days !
• Baby diapers were in the boil wash, because disposable diapers did not exist . We dried our clothes on the line and not in a power-hungry machine those continuous used 2000-watts . Wind and solar dried our clothes really. That was normal in our days . Children wore the cast-offs of older siblings and wear not brand new clothes .
  But the young lady is right ! We had not that green stuff in those days !
• At that time we had - perhaps - 1 TV or radio at home and not 1 in every room . The TV had a small window, the size of a handkerchief and not a screen the size of a big hive . In the kitchen dishes were mixed and stirred by hand, because we had no electrical devices that did everything for us .
• When we had a fragile object send by post, we wrapped it in an old newspaper to protect and not in Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap . In those days we used no grass cutter with an engine running on petrol or electricity . We used a mower that had to be pushed and acted on human strength, were fit, less fat, no diabetes-2 .
• We sported by working so we did not go to a gym to go to spinning treadmills to run . So, now obesity, no diabetes epidemic, almost nothing !
  But she's right . We had not that green stuff in those days !
• We drank from the fountain when we were thirsty, instead of a plastic bottle, which we discard after 30 sips . We filled our pens with ink, in place to buy each time a new pen . We replaced the blades of the razor, instead of throw the whole thing away just because the blade was bone .
  But we had not that green stuff in our time .
• People took the train or a bus and children walked or biked to school instead of use their mother as a 24-hour taxi service . We had 1 socket in each room and not a whole arsenal of power strips and extension cords to a dozen devices to provide power .
  But we had not that green stuff in our time .
• We had no automated gadgets needed to capture a satellite 2,000 miles away in space, to contact others to find out where the nearest pizza place is located .

But isn't it very sad that the current generation complains about how wasteful we ” older people ” were, simply because we did not have that green stuff in that time ?????