Thursday, July 07, 2005

U have a choice, and the choice is for u to make. If u know the future, what will u do? Make a decision and face it with consquences - minority report.

Well, read the newspaper today, and ordinary shoppers like us may be make to pay for the plastic bag the retailers provide. ( Does GST includes the annual tax which the government levy on plastic producers? ) Oh, we've got it wrong again. This is simply because we are trying to learn from foreign practices in countries such as Germany. It's self-enforced, meaning that there's no legal bill being placed to enforce this rule. So.. will the retailers take this opportunity to be "green" and charge the consumers the extra cost?

Maybe they will, maybe not. Let's imagine what will happen if they really do so. Say for one plastic bags, they gona charge us 10cents. Aunties will first rush to grab big grocery bags from IKEA or some other ulu cheap cheap place and they will stay complaining " wau lau eh, why zheng who always lidat ", a mixture of hokkien and angmo. Pardon me for my uncouth language. So the demand of grocery bags ( those really big n cheap one ) will go right up, and our poor plastic bag will become unwanted. WRONG! uncles and aunties will start using the recycle bag that the recycling companies issue to them. So, the point that i am gona drive across is that, collective decision can never be make in our society due to our pure selfishness. To exhort the selflessness in us, we must go within our soul and touch our heart,and ask how far are you willing to go to make this earth a better place for others. So by simply imposing monetary cost to the public will never put a cure to the gobal problems. Why not spend the cents and dollars on the poverty stricken child in other parts of the world?

Why not?

jjia leaving skool at 4:31 PM

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