Rally to ban plastic organised in Mussoorie

Allow me to join in your round of applause, as I firmly believe that the choices that we, the consumer choose to make throughout our lives, are truly the rudders of industry, and therefore, is the primary determinant of overall environmental output. Of course, I'm as guilty as any consumer given the plastic keyboard I'm using to type this response... the cellophane wrappers littering my desktop... but no matter!

Let us examine, shall we, a typical North American commuter who's lifestyle is generally defined by their job, their gigantic home, their car(s), and their children. Always running late, and always forgetting something in their maddening work-a-day rush hour race to pay for "it all."

It may not seem like a big deal, say, when you're in a hurry at a service station, and decide to chuck that mostly empty four liter plastic anti-freeze jug in the trash as opposed to having it compete for room in your car's trunk with all those plastic shopping bags - after all, it's just this once, and you consider yourself to be reasonably considerate when it comes to matters of this shared environment. Of course you care about the environment...

Just one container, and just this one time - except you fail to consider that there are likely a hundred thousand other people employing the exact same kind of "just this once" rationale, at that same very moment you do!

Six billion people on one planet. Remember, using less plastic products will free up more oil for important things like monster truck shows and space shuttle launches!