Why environmentalists should shut up about “green” & make sustainability the status quo

“You’ll be so mad at me,” my friend started our conversation. “I forgot my reusable bag in the car so had to take 3 plastic ones. Double bagged.”

“Oh no!” I replied. Although I was slightly disappointed, I tried disguising my inner judgement.

“I’m just not green like you.”

By our conversation, you’d think I was born designated into this ‘eco-lover’ lifestyle. Just how I was born into a loud and Eastern-European-Irish mutt and whiskey-loving family. Was caring about the earth a genetic combination I was cursed into, just like my abnormally tiny eyes and obnoxiously loud laugh? (Find out more about why we should stop calling it ‘green’).