it's way easier being cheesy than green, chester
After traveling over 1800 miles across this country I came to a bit of a realization: it aint easy being green. This country is designed for waste, especially rest stops. It’s like convenience has replaced common sense. For example, rather than have a clean and cool filtered water fountain/dispenser where I could fill my water up each rest stop I went to had at least two vending machines whose sole purpose was to vend petroleum covered water.
As far as green selections for food, you can forget about it. I didn’t pass one exit or rest stop that had fresh local produce. Despite the fact that lots of them were right next to giant farms.
And of course, if you want to drive cross country, you’ve got to use gas.
To summarize, there were plenty of options to eat crappy, use oil, and consume things that would be thrown out in under an hour. Basically, tons of options to hurt your body and your environment and none to do the opposite. As far as being green is concerned, you’re set up to fail! It just got me to thinking how far we all really need to go to change.
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