Save us now. Life

So, I'm a big fan of life. I enjoy living, chances are..so do you. The occasional pint with friends, the adrenaline rush of work, the awesome lazy Sunday evenings, the smell of wet grass, the complaining about the weather. Generally, life's good. Okay, perhaps not the last one.

If you enjoy life, you really should start taking care of our sustainer. No, this isn't a religious call to prayer, so atheists and non atheists, keep your pants on. I mean our world, our planet. I'm only writing this because this tweet came across my homepage and a 140 character reply wasn't enough to pen it down

JamesLyons ‏@MirrorJames

Top fact of the day - you have to use a cotton bag 3,000 times to be as green as using plastic carriers.

While I can't say anything about the connotations of the tweet I would like to break down the figures.

Let's assume the said statement is true. The average person probably shops once or perhaps twice a week. And this is purely groceries. Assuming one eats normally, we're looking at 2-3 plastic bags per trip to the store. 52 weeks in a year. Let's take 2.5 bags per week, just to take it on the lean side. The figure is hypothetical, but I think the figure is a nice basic to work with. That's a 130 bags a year that we'd cut back on. 

Now this is purely one person. With a 130 bags a year, it would take roughly 23 years to be green. Just a bit over a third of a persons life. While 23 years sounds long, it really isn't, not when average lifespan in the UK is circa 80 years old.

If two people were to continue in the same trend, I presume the figures would half, and so on and so forth. 

My message is simple. Stop thinking you're insignificant, spend 8 pence on a reusable bag, And start being green. We've only got one world and if you don't start saving it, I'll be severely pissed off because I like I said, I generally enjoy life.

Excuse the formatting error. I'm off to Tesco with my cotton bag, to save the world, and to get some food.