You couldn't make it up....

Chestnut

No-one is pitting one age group against the other. We perfectly understand that younger people have not known hardship and wouldn't expect them to be frugal by nature. But with so many environmental issues in the headlines they should be picking up some good habits along the way. My particular gripe is bottled water. I'm sure they think nothing of buying water in plastic bottles but really need to kick that habit. I dread to think how many plastic water bottles have been thrown out in the last 20 years.

Well my son and family never use single use plastic water bottles, they hardly have the hearing on partly as it’s not good for GD eczema. Frankly I think they’re doing “better” than me !

My grandsons knit their own water bottles, and sit in their pants in sub zero temperatures drinking out of them.

MissAdventure

My grandsons knit their own water bottles, and sit in their pants in sub zero temperatures drinking out of them.

Stop it !! ???

Well...
For goodness sake!

Sorry was that me who prompted your remark ?
I was just trying to point out that not all young people are profligate !
Anyway you made me laugh for at least the third time today !

I also wrote hearing instead of heating…..

‘Frosty ferns’ on the inside of the windows! Our first house had metal window frames. We certainly had frosty ferns.

It wasn't any one remark, I just wanted to join in and be silly

Obviously, not all young people are using plastic water bottles! But there seems to be enough to warrant mass production of them. And billions of them have been used. If ever there was a problem around 'single use plastics' it is those. I hope the recycling schemes they are starting in shops will become the norm. You drop your bottles in the machine and get some money back.

All of us can produce anecdotal evidence to show that some old people, some young people are variously wildly profligate or virtuously abstemious - especially when they are our children, but it is the generality we have to look at and the generality is that older people are more careful and younger people are more profligate in their consumption of most carbon emitting products.

I can see no good reason why young people, who are willing to put so much time and effort into protesting at COP26 or against plastics in the oceans and have often read extensively about the problem, shouldn't also have looked at themselves and how they live and how their lifestyle impinges in the problem.

Obviously none of us are perfect, but one of the great wriggle outs, you hear it a lot from non-vaxxers, as we cannot have a perfect result there is no point in doing anything at all. The vaccine does not give lifetime protection from ever getting COVID or passing it on, so there is no point in having it. We all know that is a daft attitude and exactly the same applies to not doing our best, each and everyone of us, regardless of age, to live an environmentally helpful life.

When GNs mention water bottles my first thoughts is of my hottie, not my flask.
Although, I suppose for some that could bring to mind whisky.

Lucca

I also wrote hearing instead of heating…..

My Grandma, who was born in 1900, used to turn her hearing aids off to "save the batteries" ?

There are several posts on the thread that mention remembering paraffin heatersas well as frosted windows. The heaters probably contributed a lot to the ice ferns - paraffin heaters produce lots of water vapour as they burn, which then condenses on the cold window glass, forming very pretty patterns.