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> We are completely fine growing so many pumpkins only for them to be carved and thrown away; As far as entertainment goes, carving a pumpkin and then letting
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> We are completely fine growing so many pumpkins only for them to be carved and thrown away;
As far as entertainment goes, carving a pumpkin and then letting it quickly compost away is relatively low impact.
You could always argue that the most environmentally friendly option is to do nothing at all and cause nothing to be produced or moved around, but that's hardly a realistic argument. Criticizing every activity that causes something to be consumed, no matter how renewable or compostable, is hardly productive.
Once the environmental arguments get to the point where we're criticizing people for carving a vegetable up but not eating it once per year, it gets hard for people to take seriously.
- madiator 5y agoI hear you. I am not criticizing Halloween, since I take part in doing all of these. I did mention costumes going to landfill though, not just pumpkins. What I mentioned doesn't have to be taken to extreme to say nothing should be produced and moved around! By that analogy, the only way to save the environment is to stop living.
- swixmix 5y agoHow do we know what the environment wants? When we are saving it, it’s from our perspective. We are saving our environment. There are plenty of pests that don’t like what we’re up to. We are important. :)