The Cost of Going Green

With today’s economic crisis, global warming issues, and political infringement upon the world’s population, it is no wonder we are left wondering what little things we could do to possibly effect our world’s positive changes. Everywhere we turn now-a-days, we’re influenced to Go Green. A movement that didn’t just happen overnight. It should be something subconsciously instated in our values to just not litter, re-use & recycle, and just put a little effort in an environmentally friendly cohabitant world. Unfortunately, not everyone thinks or acts that way. I guess the issues now are more recognized as an endangered matter than ever before. With issues such as unfiltered disease-ridden water, viruses, and toxic waste, we’re all left with no other choice but to do our part in helping the world. It is not to say world peace is ever going to be a destination, more so, it is a crisis. An unstable, cost-efficient crisis.

Now that we are all aware of the issues and ready to do our part, it leaves me to question, why the hell does it cost so much to just recycle? The issues are in our faces daily, publications and celebrity endorsed advertisements reminding us to recycle, Go Green, help the world, be positive. The only people that could afford to recycle are primarily the ones not under the recession pool of our economic issues.

So we’ve separated the papers from plastics and glass. We now have to pay extra to have them pick it up? Every inch of anything Green-related, cost much more than if it were not labeled, Green-friendly. Even the cost of a Toyota Hybrid costs more now than it did when it first came out. So is everyone really trying to help our environment or are the financially stable just capitalizing on every bit of our economy criteria.

It is no wonder while it takes a small percent of the world to create the positive change, it takes the rest of us much longer to be able to catch on. The wait on the current trend is more of a financial toll on us than the crisis itself.