Wednesday 21 August 2019

Environmentalism


Saw some advert on TV the other night that made ridiculous claims for the product by stretching the rules of credibility.

Hay and I decided to use the same logic on something else and reached the conclusion that Amazon is environmentally friendly and prevents road accidents.


The logic is as follows - i) it's more environmentally friendly for a single Amazon driver to be delivering multiple purchases to people in my locale than for all those people to individually climb into their cars to buy what they bought on Amazon, and ii) the fact fewer miles are covered by a single driver means there will be fewer road accidents.

The logic is impeccable, but ignores all the transport and returns waste, not to mention the fact that without Amazon we probably wouldn't have bought all the stuff we buy in our orgies of rampant consumerism facilitated by next day delivery. However, the internet can't be uninvented.


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