Confused Rant

The Environment

Global Warming
Floods caused by Global warming? nothing whatsoever to do with all the new houses built on flood plains and government cutbacks on things like drain cleaning, maintenance of flood defences etc.
Droughts caused by global warming? nothing to do with governments not spending money on building new reservoirs and water companies not fixing all the leaking pipes.

A month of rainy days, or a month without rain it must be down to global warming of course.
I know global warming exists but it's become an excuse for everything these days.
We've had extreme weather through the ages, I remember my house getting flooded when I was a kid in the sixties, local areas were severely flooded in the fifties, we've had a lot of rainy days this year but not even been close to the minor flooding of 10 years ago.

When watching the news over the last few weeks I saw the people of Yorkshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire blaming the government for the weather, my first thought was how can you blame anyone for the weather? but the more you listen to reports the more truth comes out.
Gordon Brown comes up with new standard excuse no.1 global warming, but years of neglect since the tories killed the unions have seen public services eroded to the basic theory of "if it don't make a profit, don't do it". So all the preventitive measures that would have been carried out years ago now don't get done because there's no money to be made.

Recycling
How can companies like Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys and the rest have the nerve to promote recycling, when they are responsible for probably 90% of the packaging that's filling our landfills? Fruit and veg now comes in polystyrene trays with plastic covering, milk comes in plastic bottles, in fact just about everything you buy is in some sort of plastic covering.
I think supermarkets should be fined for every product they put in unnecessary packaging.
What's wrong with paper bags for fruit and veg these are totally bio degradeable, bring back the old method of getting money back on bottles (earnt me a fortune when I was a kid) used to be 3p a bottle (beer, Fizzypops etc) none ever got thrown away as all the kids would go round collecting them to make extra pocket money. Milk bottles still exist but they've been priced out of the market by the supermarkets.