Stupid things we used to do.
- · Drive without seatbelts
- · Drink and drive
- · Drive stoned
- · Put pesticides on our lawns
- · Smoke tobacco
- · Believe the government
- · Use leaded gas
- · Leave cars idling
- · Discriminate based upon race, color or sexual orientation
- · Not allow mothers to choose if they wanted to bring a child to term
- · Lock people up for smoking pot
- · Not take advantage of the wind and sun to make electricity
- · Use Agent Orange to defoliate hydro lines
- · Wear wool sweaters and socks to play hockey
- · Play hockey without helmets
- · Think women were best kept bare foot and pregnant
- · Fill the back of the pickup with kids and drive down the highway
- · Play with mercury
- · Beat children with leather belts or wooden switches
- · Burn coal without any scrubbers
- · Believe stock prices were based upon underlying value
- · Think external inputs could build nations
- · Keep physically and mentally challenged people hidden
- · Pay $20 for an album
- · Allow private enterprises to get to the point where their failure becomes an existential threat to the economy.
- · Believe all cultures were equally valid
- · Spit on the sidewalk
- · Litter
- · Not recycle
- · Trust institutions
- · Boat without life jackets
- · Fear communism
- · Think socialism was communism
- · Not realize sport is more business than sport
- · Think bigger was better
- · Celebrate sports hits that left a player concussed
- · Take boxing seriously
- · Wear suits and ties
- · Have a wardrobe that mostly needed dry cleaning
- · Put raw sewage into the water system
- · Build bedroom communities
- Manufacture electronic goods with vampire electric use
- or inefficient AC/DC converters.
- · Believe in simple solutions
- · Trust leaders to do the right thing
- · Think being green wasted money instead of making money
- · Pave everything
- Have smoking sections on airplanes, not realizing it was the equivalent of having peeing sections in swimming pools.
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