You are not an environmental hero for saying "no bag please"

Anyone who hasn't been living under a rock that underneath an even bigger rock for the past few years has heard about how the poor polar bears who will maul you and your family without a second thought are starving and not getting fish because of GLOBAL WARMING. OH MY GOD! Don't forget, according to that al gore movie, the Empire State building will be halfway submerged in water in a few years and events along those lines.

Now then, in the advent of those movies, people have invented things like "earth hour", where you turn off all electricity for one hour, hey, not a bad idea because you are actually DOING SOMETHING!

A close friend and I were talking about how the hippies of yesteryear are much better than the "hipsters" of right now. Really, standing outside of an office building with picket signs for an hour does alot, oh boy! Don't forget, joining facebook groups really let em know you're serious about a topic! When you say you boycott something, actually do it. Okay, I've strayed too far off course.

Now then, anyone who has worked at any job where they offer bags to annoying customers has heard this fun line "I don't need a bag." Okay, that's fine, sure no problem, here you go. OKAY. Now, when you have to brag about not taking a bag, or let everyone around you know that you won't take a bag for the good of the earth (Yes, something an idiot customer actually told me), then you are a douche. you are lower than a douche.

Just a small list of things I've been told when people save the world...

"No bag please"

"No, I don't want your bag"

*waits until I finish bagging everything, watching closely* "Oh, no bag, you've seen that al gore turth movie right???" (why they wait until I bagging makes you even more of a douche)

*waits until finished bagging* "Bag? EXCUSE ME?! FOR THIS?! NOO...some people" *walks off with smug attitude* step aside people, Queen McSand-Snatch just saved some polar bears...

Some people don't say anyting and will literally toss / throw the bag back at you. I'm sorry for doing my job. If they throw the bag back at you like a frisbee, then that further increases the douche-ness.

More escape me, but my favorite is the ugly suburban mom and her obsese daughter who was busy sucking on a massive "frapacino" which cannot be helping her condition.
"no, my *butter troll* and I will not take your bag, we are going to *looks back at other customers, probably full of herself* help our mother earth AND environment"
troll : YEA!! SAVE THE EARTH! *points at me and then does fist pump*

oh boy...the fact that you will not take a bag doesn't mean that the world is instantly saved, I don't mom and butter troll saved the world, nor was the bag they so nicely refused planted into the earth and grew into a wonderful tree!

You want to "save" the environment? stop driving massive trucks when you don't live in rural America and have NO reason to own one. Start there, I'm hungry.

Carbon footprints, suck it.

Good Business.