Reality Check by Dave Whamond for January 02, 2025

Happens too often to be surprising any more

Yep. In our province, they are banning plastic bags….guess what we’re using now?

Pick it, mill it, or pulp it: fruit, furniture and toilet paper!

Let’s grow more trees.

Bamboo has been stepping up as an excellent alternative. Hey, it grows like, um, grass…

I’m going to print out hundreds of copies of this cartoon and paste them on all the trees in the neighbourhood!

Oh, don’t worry, he had his hundreds of pamphlets printed up on sheets of plastic, not paper…

I refuse supermarket tickets. Some can be more than a metre long. If I need to check my purchases or need a “proof of purchase”, I can check what I bought or print off, from the supermarket’s website…

I shall resist saying he’s making a tree-mendous effort.

There be the irony.

How many trees were killed to provide the paper for those leaflets?

tree-mendous…

I went to an ecological fair and spoke to someone from an off grid farming intentional community. You needed to have a car in order to live there.

We saved the trees when we switched to plastic bags. Now they want us to switch back to paper bags. Seems the bag manufacturers, just like the climate alarmists, have been scamming us all along.

Best Comic of the year!!

We get our household paper products from Cloud Paper. It’s made from bamboo, not wood, and we don’t see any difference in the quality of the paper.

My community is growing like crazy. The builders leave up trees but after people move in, they cut most of them down so they can plant grass. Water, fertilize, weed, cut, repeat… People are amazing.

Could be made out of Hemp.

Hey buddy. Paper doesn’t grow on trees ya know….Wait…

He works at the fact-tree that makes plastic stuff.

OY!

Fail… using paper actually SAVES trees. Paper is derived from stands of trees grown, specifically, to be harvested and turned, partly into pulp. When the demand for paper diminishes, the property loses its value and gets sold to speculators and developers.

“Every child at our Earth Day celebration receives a free glow stick!”

Didn’t know it was Dearth Day …!

( have a wood one )

“ Why should I take that?”

“ Cause.”

Aaack!

At least the paper decomposes and doesn’t end up as micro bits of plastic everywhere including our precious organs. Like everything though re-planting for use needs to be thought through carefully. Avoid planting mono culture of only fast growing species. Plant a variety. It’s true of all things; food growing, animals, even people. Stick to one kind and in-breed and there will eventually develop susceptibility to harmful effects.

Can someone save the tree that’s growing on that man’s head???? :)

OK, I get it. Took a minute.

Dude needs a reality check! Wait, he’s in the right place

‘The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.’ We should plant more trees anyway.

As we’re sound asleep by philosophiesThat save the trees and kill the children

For the irony impaired. ;-)