So, I did something environmentally irresponsible yesterday. I streaked my hair (which I normally colour with body art quality henna), with bleach…. on the bright side, it looks pretty; on the less-bright side, I took part in adding one more unnecessary toxin to environment.
As a rule, I try not to keep anything in my environment that I wouldn’t be willing to ingest. I use earth-friendly dish soap, I clean the house with vinegar and baking soda, I colour my hair (when I choose to) with henna. There is absolutely no chance in the world that I would intentionally ingest bleach. I fail.
On the bright side, as I said, the result is quite pretty. On the downside, I feel like a bumper-sticker environmentalist: all talk, no change. Sigh.
Like, I think, everyone else who’s ever gone back on their beliefs out of convenience, I’ve already started the justifications on why it was okay. I mean, it’s kind of like the cap-and-trade thing, right? I don’t ever use bleach in the house, so putting a few streaks in my hair won’t hurt anything, will it? And besides, bleach isn’t THAT environmentally irresponsible a substance to use, is it? (marine life would argue that it is) And besides, it’s hardly any at all! Surely my small indulgence won’t make a difference… (maybe not, but it’s the bulk of the populace thinking that way that’s keeping us trapped in this mess to the degree that we are).
So, in conclusion, I suck a bit sometimes. I may or may not continue to suck… I really do like the streaks. I’m still partway through my thinking on this one.
This whole Maddy-is-a-douchebag thing has got me thinking, though… how do you guys deal with your environmentally irresponsible indulgences? A sort of cap-and-trade thing (I do this one bad thing in place of several other bad things I’m not doing)? One Environmental Bad a month? A week? A year? Is it forgiveable sometimes?
What think you?
Sorry, fishies... 
