[a fool in paradise]

"Paper or plastic?” When the customer answers the latter, Green Police swoop in and cuff him with the words, “You picked the wrong day to mess with the eco-system.”

I remember when the Greenie Weenies used to look DOWN on me for choosing paper over plastic.

[Dilbert San Diego]

In the early ‘80s, a previous generation of enviro-liberal-radicals pressure brought us plastic bags in grocery stores. It was to save the trees and all that. Now, the enviro-liberals have decided that plastic bags are not enviro friendly. But it was due to the pressures of enviro-radicals that we have plastic bags in the first place!!!!!!!

[KarlInOhio]

“Paper or plastic?” When the customer answers the latter, Green Police swoop in and cuff him with the words, “You picked the wrong day to mess with the eco-system.”

It was a trick question. If he had answered "paper" he would have been arrested too. "Paper or plastic?" is the eco equivalent of "Have you stopped beating your wife?"

[MrB]

That’s because it’s not whether you choose paper or plastic and more about just controlling your life.

They’d rather you just didn’t buy food and starved to death.

[Clock King]

He should have broke the eco-cop’s nose, then his neck.