6/18/2013

Singapore a green country?


The call for saving mother earth is gaining momentum around the world. And Singapore, like all young and impressionable kids, will rush in to join the crowd, to be part of the crowd, to be green. And we have done quite a bit in many areas and even won mentions in our conservation effort, green architecture, energy saving buildings, water conservation, and all the nice little bins around the island to save paper and plastic bottles and drink cans. Hope the cost of the bins is not more than the money saved from collecting papers and plastics. And we gave ourselves a pat for doing such great stuff to save mother earth. So is Singapore really a green country?

Every time I see young people picking plastic bottles trying to save a few pieces of plastic I start to wonder, how much could they save when the country is wasting so much resources unnecessarily? We try to save on plastic bags, on plastic bottles but on the other hand we are wasting and consuming unnecessarily beyond anyone’s imagination.

Our whole economy is built on wasteful pursuits, wasteful consumption and unnecessary consumption that need not be. Economic growth for the sake of economic growth is simply waste, wasting scarce resources of mother earth and in huge quantities. Economic growth, economic activities, particularly the excessive and redundant types, are destroying mother earth at an increasing rate that is unstoppable. Think the number of good cars and vehicles that can run for another 10 or 20 years but scrapped for newer ones! How much resources were wasted? Think of the pulling down of buildings/flats that can last for another 50 or 100 years but pulled down to rebuild! How much wasteful energy and resources were blown away? Think of the number luxury bags, mobile phones, apps, TVs, consumer durables that were used and thrown away when they were in good working conditions! Think artificial gardens.

Think of the crazy idea of increasing population for the sake of economic growth? How much resources and energy will be wasted just to feed the number of mouths, to clothe and house the number of bodies that are called growth?

And we are so happy about saving a few plastic bags, a few plastic bottles, a few drink cans? Go buy, spend, buy and consume for the sake of the economy.

12 comments:

  1. If they don't force you to throw away, where to get more revenue. CPF needs it, Tamasek needs it and so our ministers need it.

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  2. With a density like sinkaland, it is asking for lots of garbage not green.

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  3. Thats the reason why haze is all over sinkaland. Mother nature will retaliate when being bullied unlike sinkies.

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  4. There is wayang for everything, be it to help Sinkie PMEs, Sinkies first, and of course going green lah.

    Can anything be done about the haze?

    Yes, our minister will call up their Indonesian counterparts to take action because it is very serious.

    But will that even help to improve the PSI reading one number less? Hahahaha.







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    1. Aiyoh, been calling them every year and what happened??

      Asean members some more. Rotation sometime chairman.

      All these hypocrites, what earth hour, what clean and green.

      What nonsense!! Some even held concerts to commemorate the events. After that tons of rubbish.

      F1 in sinkieland. All the dust, noise and pollution.

      Want to earn monies only and show the world what sinkie land as claimed credit by the papies is.

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  5. After man started the fires, only God can help to improve the PSI reading.

    Because only God, not man and no matter how much man is paid, can control the wind direction from not blowing towards Sinkieland.

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  6. Very easy to kill sinkies - can use mosquitoes or haze. No need expensive weapons, no need army, no need generals.

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  7. Absolutely spot on. Crush cars which are in good condition , pull down good buildings , etc, .... All these make GDP figures go up , so ministers n top civil servants' already obscene salaries will go up even higher . ' Go Green ' is all utter rubbish . Throw away dollars n try to get some miserable cents.

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  8. When there is coolie work to do, the pigs call us to volunteer.

    When there is money to be given out, they pay themselves millions in salary.

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  9. Hi Anon @7.34am.

    Now the Minister/CEO/All staff of NEA calling for volunteers to fight the mozzies.

    So many years, same problems, skive here skive there, no systems in their fight and now calling volunteers to fight their battles.

    Give up their massive salaries and give to the volunteers.

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  10. Hi Virgo49
    I'm glad you noticed the anomalies in work and reward.
    Spread the news.
    Let's not be dumb an loyal anymore to the Traitors.

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  11. look at the bird flu map
    on top, click bird flu outbreaks, choose jan - jun 2004 [when it started]
    below click show county names

    does it look like *ethnic specific* virus ?
    if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck.......
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/05/bird_flu_map/html/1.stm

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