Lake Tahoe After the 4th. An Outrage!

Remy said:
I know. I wish there were more people who did care. I wonder what could still be in the lake or under the sand that couldn't be found. They will probably keep cleaning.
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Thatā€™s exactly what I was thinking as I wrote my post. I canā€™t wrap my head around people going to a beautiful spot on the beach to relax, soak up some rays and chill and leave it a disgusting mess.

Who knows what they dumped in the water. Itā€™s disturbing. Sure the mess can be cleaned up but the fact that thereā€™s over 8500 pounds of garbage that others didnā€™t care in the least about. No wonder our earth is the way it is. I feel bad for all the other species who have to share a planet with us.
 
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Acting like pigs began in the mid 1970s after myriad Counterculture minded young people from states east migrated here into the SF Bay Area. Most early hippies were environmentally minded and often idealistic. That was also when drugs used were mostly just weed with a minor percentage acid. But by mid decade many hard drug users, dealers, criminal bikers, and various long haired miscreants arrived that changed it all and by decade end was often about coke, speed, whiskey, and smack. The Punk Rockers and then metal rockers that rose about 1975 were the ones that began all the trashing. And each new young generation since has adopted that foul, inconsiderate, selfish, rebellious attitude. Many older Grateful Dead followers were the ones that have tended to resist going down that pig path.

I tend to blame the government for allowing those attitudes to increase. During the early 1960s were national media campaign for "Don't Be A Litterbug" and "America the Beautiful" but since 1980 it is like politicians can't be bothered. The fact stories like this have greatly increased shows how wrong society has been about how they treat our precious blue water planet.
 
People simply live in their own little world and completely uncaring about a mess they leave for others. .....
I bet if confronting those who were there.....they all would claim was not them or something like that .....
I find each time i go out to places where you must deal with the general public .....I lose more faith in the general public.......
People who do not listen or pay attention is amazing to me.....and just pigs with trash etc........
I was watching a mom clean up a small child and drop her garbage just anywhere ...another of her older kids picked it up walked it to a bin and she seemed perturbed at kid probably because those around here commented on kid did not learn manners from her.
 
Naturally said:
Disgusting people
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To say the least.
PeppermintPatty said:
I canā€™t wrap my head around people going to a beautiful spot on the beach to relax, soak up some rays and chill and leave it a disgusting mess.
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Good, I wish no one could...
Remy said:
I wonder what could still be in the lake or under the sand that couldn't be found.
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You probably don't want to know, I am sure its much more than what can easily be seen.
David777 said:
Acting like pigs began in the mid 1970s
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Maybe in California, but where I come from it was going on so long as I can remember, lots more litter in the 50s and 60s than today. The fact that we take note of this hopefully means it's the exception...
 
Jeni said:
People simply live in their own little world and completely uncaring about a mess they leave for others. .....
I bet if confronting those who were there.....they all would claim was not them or something like that .....
I find each time i go out to places where you must deal with the general public .....I lose more faith in the general public.......
People who do not listen or pay attention is amazing to me.....and just pigs with trash etc........
I was watching a mom clean up a small child and drop her garbage just anywhere ...another of her older kids picked it up walked it to a bin and she seemed perturbed at kid probably because those around here commented on kid did not learn manners from her.
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Wow. And yes, if you approach someone or try to say anything, they'd get offended, nasty and even possibly abusive. It's like their brains cannot process what they do.
 
David777 said:
Keeping America Beautiful, Crying Indian commercial.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...1cd8d9eb680d1665497c9a91acb6f177&action=click
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Always thought that was a good commercial. But it isn't without controversy.
The actor in the commercial isn't even Native American and is of Italian ancestry.
While born in America, both his parents where immigrants from Italy ... "Iron Eyes Cody" - Espera Oscar de Corti

Now a Native American advocacy group that was given the rights to the public service announcement is retiring it, saying it has always been inappropriate. To many Native Americans, the public service announcement has been a painful reminder of the enduring stereotypes they face. The nonprofit that originally commissioned the advertisement, Keep America Beautiful, had long been considering how to retire the ad and announced that itā€™s doing so by transferring ownership of the right to the National Congress of American Indians.
Native American advocacy group to retire ā€˜Crying Indianā€™ anti-pollution ad

I guess to Native Americans, an "Italian" dressed up in buckskins is cultural appropriation.
Kind of like white actors of the 20's and 30's in black-face.
 
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David777 said:
Acting like pigs began in the mid 1970s after myriad Counterculture minded young people from states east migrated here into the SF Bay Area. Most early hippies were environmentally minded and often idealistic. That was also when drugs used were mostly just weed with a minor percentage acid. But by mid decade many hard drug users, dealers, criminal bikers, and various long haired miscreants arrived that changed it all and by decade end was often about coke, speed, whiskey, and smack. The Punk Rockers and then metal rockers that rose about 1975 were the ones that began all the trashing. And each new young generation since has adopted that foul, inconsiderate, selfish, rebellious attitude. Many older Grateful Dead followers were the ones that have tended to resist going down that pig path.

I tend to blame the government for allowing those attitudes to increase. During the early 1960s were national media campaign for "Don't Be A Litterbug" and "America the Beautiful" but since 1980 it is like politicians can't be bothered. The fact stories like this have greatly increased shows how wrong society has been about how they treat our precious blue water planet.
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I arrived in Canada in the mid-fifties and couldn't believe the trash along the side, and in the ditches, of the highways! This was North America with so much uninhabited space so why not throw wrappers, dirty diapers etc. out of your car window, or stop the car, clean it out, including the ashtrays. I saw so many people do it. I could not believe the indifference regarding our environment! Things had improved tremendously in the meantime but it seems young people are returning to our old unsavoury practices!
 
Old Salt said:
I arrived in Canada in the mid-fifties and couldn't believe the trash along the side, and in the ditches, of the highways!
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Louisiana was that way well into the 80s and beyond. Slow to take up the anti-littering thing.

My uncle taught me how to throw a beer bottle out the drivers window and over the car's roof so it wouldn't shatter in the road. That was responsible trash disposal back then.
 
Alligatorob said:
Louisiana was that way well into the 80s and beyond. Slow to take up the anti-littering thing.

My uncle taught me how to throw a beer bottle out the drivers window and over the car's roof so it wouldn't shatter in the road. That was responsible trash disposal back then.
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Oh, yes, I forgot about the ubiquitous bottles! Every ditch had them! Also a short distance away from the highway: old refrigerators and washing machines!
 

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