Halloween is Destroying the Environment

 I guess today will be a day of environmental postings from me as this is now my second, but I can’t resist. Now Halloween is bad for the environment. Children dressing up in costumes and having a little fun is going to destroy the planet. How did we ever survive to become adults, when everything we did as children contribute to the earth’s demise?

 “Green Your Halloween” warns against buying “chocolate that’s unsustainably harvested, prepackaged costumes made of non-recyclable materials, lighted decorations that suck energy like a vampire and pumpkins trucked in from thousands of miles away.”

Melanie Lenart, research associate for the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, said too much waste is generated on Halloween, and people should take the time to reduce their purchasing of disposable items.

“When you start packaging things individually, that just creates more waste, which goes in landfills, and that’s a problem,” she said.

 I think too much money is wasted on an organization that calls itself Study of Planet Earth. Can you imagine waking up in the morning and being so miserable that you are worried about people buying candy that is individually wrapped? There has to be something missing in your life.

 It’s not just candy though:

The Web site encourages readers to buy pumpkins at local farmer’s markets instead of ones shipped from far away because the environmental costs of food transportation are often overlooked.

“Anything that uses gas or oil is increasing our greenhouse gases, which is increasing the problem of global warming that we’re facing,” Lenart said.

“It’s scary how much food is contributing to our greenhouse gas problem, when it doesn’t necessarily have to,” she said.

 It’s also BIG OIL on top of BIG CANDY. Then there is BIG CHEMICALS:

“Most conventional agriculture uses fertilizers and pesticides, which can be problematic,” Lenart said.

 And let’s not forget about the costumes:

Because Halloween is all about the costumes, the site encouraged homemade costumes available at used clothing stores rather than the store-bought costumes that are non-recyclable and covered in packaging.

 Then there are Halloween lights:

“Green Halloween” also encourages people to limit the amount of lighted Halloween decorations they use.

 And last but not least, the trick or treat bags:

encourages trick-or-treaters to carry a reusable tote bag for candy, instead of paper or plastic, which kill marine animals, pollute the environment, and kill more than 14 million trees annually

 Dead marine animals, dead trees, polluting the environment, what are these children thinking of. Can’t these little bastards see how they are destroying the planet? This is just insane, talk about people just trying to rain on a parade. These people really are just miserable and want everyone wlse to be miserable.

 I have always held the premise that global warming was a hoax being perpetrated on the American people for the purpose of taxing us, but now I am beginning to wonder if maybe these people are just anti-capitalists looking to bring down the system