How we baby boomers, made it through our childhoods without (disposable) water bottles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, obviously all this use of plastic these days is a concern but why do you have to couch it in terms of baby boomer superiority? That's annoying. We're not superior. We just lived through different times. You can raise issues about waste of resources without making it a generational issue. But the way you framed this just makes it more fuel for inter-generational attacks.

It is annoying. It's also pretty rich it's a Boomer griping about this one thing when ithe Boomer generation as a whole pretty much trashed the environment and was one of the largest contributors to climate change. But I guess you can feel virtuous about the water fountain thing? All the young people I know use reausable plastic or aluminum bottles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look, obviously all this use of plastic these days is a concern but why do you have to couch it in terms of baby boomer superiority? That's annoying. We're not superior. We just lived through different times. You can raise issues about waste of resources without making it a generational issue. But the way you framed this just makes it more fuel for inter-generational attacks.

It is annoying. It's also pretty rich it's a Boomer griping about this one thing when ithe Boomer generation as a whole pretty much trashed the environment and was one of the largest contributors to climate change. But I guess you can feel virtuous about the water fountain thing? All the young people I know use reausable plastic or aluminum bottles.

+1. The boomer generation was the one who created plastic bottles and marketed it to us in the 1990s, first for soda and then for water. Drinking water is a good thing, so why can’t we promote drinking out of reusable bottles? Oh that’s right, because it hurts Coke and Pepsi’s bottom lines.

[Anonymous]

GenX and I didn't grow up in the city. I drank water from the nearest creek when hiking. You kids and your city water.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in the 80s and we always drank from the hose when we were playing outside. For sports there would be one of those big orange jugs and dixie cups. I don't remember anyone carrying water around with them until college, when we all got reusable mugs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Look, obviously all this use of plastic these days is a concern but why do you have to couch it in terms of baby boomer superiority? That's annoying. We're not superior. We just lived through different times. You can raise issues about waste of resources without making it a generational issue. But the way you framed this just makes it more fuel for inter-generational attacks.

It is annoying. It's also pretty rich it's a Boomer griping about this one thing when ithe Boomer generation as a whole pretty much trashed the environment and was one of the largest contributors to climate change. But I guess you can feel virtuous about the water fountain thing? All the young people I know use reausable plastic or aluminum bottles.

+1. The boomer generation was the one who created plastic bottles and marketed it to us in the 1990s, first for soda and then for water. Drinking water is a good thing, so why can’t we promote drinking out of reusable bottles? Oh that’s right, because it hurts Coke and Pepsi’s bottom lines.

Original pp here. Yeah, this is pretty much what I was talking about. My intent was to defend young people and I'm sorry to see that it's being followed up by attacks on boomers as a generation. I know it's tempting to blame everything on a generation you don't belong to - boomers claim millennials are spoiled and weak - millennials blame boomers for trashing the environment - but we really should work on these problems together. Wasting your energy stereotyping an entire generation isn't going to address the real problems we as a community are facing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GenX and I didn't grow up in the city. I drank water from the nearest creek when hiking. You kids and your city water.

Did a lot of backpacking in my youth. I would never drink water from a creek unless I treated it first. Hope you were treating that creekwater before drinking it.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, yeah, yeah... and we lived without bike helmets and child safety seats; we slept on our stomachs in drop-rail cribs, etc. etc. etc. and most of us survived - but not all.

I am a 64 yr old boomer and I love that we keep learning and growing - doing things better and better for children.

So, OP, get over it. Water is a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, yeah, yeah... and we lived without bike helmets and child safety seats; we slept on our stomachs in drop-rail cribs, etc. etc. etc. and most of us survived - but not all.

I am a 64 yr old boomer and I love that we keep learning and growing - doing things better and better for children.

So, OP, get over it. Water is a good thing.

Nobody's saying not to drink water, dum-dum. We're saying that with a plethora of reusable water bottles and thermoses and what have you out there, there's literally no need to rape the Earth just to hydrate yourself and your kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look, obviously all this use of plastic these days is a concern but why do you have to couch it in terms of baby boomer superiority? That's annoying. We're not superior. We just lived through different times. You can raise issues about waste of resources without making it a generational issue. But the way you framed this just makes it more fuel for inter-generational attacks.

It is annoying. It's also pretty rich it's a Boomer griping about this one thing when ithe Boomer generation as a whole pretty much trashed the environment and was one of the largest contributors to climate change. But I guess you can feel virtuous about the water fountain thing? All the young people I know use reausable plastic or aluminum bottles.

+1. The boomer generation was the one who created plastic bottles and marketed it to us in the 1990s, first for soda and then for water. Drinking water is a good thing, so why can’t we promote drinking out of reusable bottles? Oh that’s right, because it hurts Coke and Pepsi’s bottom lines.

Original pp here. Yeah, this is pretty much what I was talking about. My intent was to defend young people and I'm sorry to see that it's being followed up by attacks on boomers as a generation. I know it's tempting to blame everything on a generation you don't belong to - boomers claim millennials are spoiled and weak - millennials blame boomers for trashing the environment - but we really should work on these problems together. Wasting your energy stereotyping an entire generation isn't going to address the real problems we as a community are facing.

Don't get whiplash from all that backpedaling and re-read your post.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:GenX and I didn't grow up in the city. I drank water from the nearest creek when hiking. You kids and your city water.

Did a lot of backpacking in my youth. I would never drink water from a creek unless I treated it first. Hope you were treating that creekwater before drinking it.

Of course not. We didn't have money for that. You can have a bit of tolerance for some of the nasties. The regular drinking water was a surface spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Easy - We drank Diet Coke.

Tab!

[Anonymous]

Y'all ever heard of canteens? Thermoses? Collapsible cups?

Baby Boomers had those, guys.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Easy - We drank Diet Coke.

Tab!

Shasta! Fresca!

[Anonymous]

We also "made it through" without wearing our seat belts but it's not something I'd really recommend as a best practice, you know?

[Anonymous]

Yes, my coaches provided bigs orange jugs with Dixie cups or cone shaped paper cups.

On a regular summer day of playing, without having water fountains near by, I got pounding headaches. My son is prone to headaches when he exerts himself or gets hot, too. Therefore, he brings water with him when we go to the park or anywhere, really. We have stainless steel bottles.

The disposable plastic bottles are a huge problem. Staying hydrated is not.