OMFG

Watching some silly local broadcast show on green-living (a term I hate even though I respect the concept and related stuff). Some lady is teaching kids how to make crap out of cardboard refrigerator boxes, and claiming that this is teaching kids sustainability and environmentalism. Her logic (and this obviously paraphrasing) was something to the effect of "You need to have an imagination to make something out of a refrigerator box. And you need imagination to think of solutions to find alternatives to petroleum and plastic and stuff. So if you have the imagination to create something fun like a flower shop out of a box, then maybe you will be able to use that imagination to come up with solutions to energy problems."
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WTF are you serious lady? So the reason we haven't found the solution to our energy problems is that we haven't been applying our imaginations? LOL. Yeah the solution to controllable nuclear fusion is just a few 6 year finger-paintings away. GTFO. I respect information on sustainability and alternative energy from real scientists and engineers that have spent years of their lives devoted to understanding this work. And I think there are a lot of basic every day things that people can do to reduce waste and energy consumption. And I support environmentalism, conservation, and efforts to create sustainability. But some person with little to no understanding of the economics and science behind our energy problems who is claiming that she is promoting sustainability by providing a bunch of cardboard boxes for kids to turn into pirate ships is just ridiculous. First off lady kids don't need you to tell them that they can turn a big box into a house. They've been doing it for decades. Second if you are going to do this at least use pre-used boxes that you got from a business or recycling center, not brand new boxes that haven't ever been used before. And finally if you are going to try and teach environmentalism as a part of this craft lesson at least know what sustainability actually is. And give the kids credit for not being total morons and actually explain the practical basics of it.

/rant

Also save by the bell just came on, and when I watch that show now it is hard to believe that anyone ever took an episode of it seriously. I can understand why people watch it, but to me it's like one big thinly veiled sarcastic joke about last 80s early 90s pop culture. I know when I was little I probably didn't think that, but when that show was on the air I was like 8 years old, and as far as I knew that was what high school was really like.

Mr. Belding is great btw.