blog prompt 5 christmas time!!

Christmas is a time to relax, enjoy yourself, see family and for many people in the UK and other parts of the world to have a well deserved day off work. It is a big event in the Christian calendar and is well celebrated so with these celebration also means unsustainable use of basically everything. There isn’t another day which is as big as Christmas where presents are received and given, more food is consumed and bought than usual and when people are generally happy and not moaning about things for once. For it or any other festival which religions celebrate to be called unsustainable is correct and is understood but most people properly just don’t care at this time. There isn’t going to be another time of year you can do this it’s a one off each year so people should have the right to be unsustainable eat too much, use to much packaging and waste stuff. The only people who would moan about these events using too much packaging and excess food and other bits would be the eco-hippies/warriors who don’t take a day’s break from annoying ordinary people. My opinion is that everybody knows, no one cares, I don’t care it’s once a year for each religion they should let people just get on with it each year and not say nothing. But as soon as it’s over people can’t carry on living that unsustainable which I think people should realise. We live in the 21st century where celebration of religious festivals is only celebrated by the real religious people but it’s usually just a time of year to get presents eat too much and get drunk possibly. Most kids these days might not even know about the history of Christmas and why people celebrate it they might not even know who Jesus even is in extreme cases.

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Christmas at this very moment in time isn’t sustainable and hasn’t been for decades ever since it was turned from a religious celebration into a commercial event for companies to make money. Santa Claus originally wore green clothing until Coca Cola stepped in and changed it into red for Cola and made the famous commercial I think everyone knows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogetBqMgau0 (January 2010)

Any person who thinks about their Christmas celebration will think back and whether they were sustainable will be the last thing that pops into most people’s heads that is because it isn’t a worry on these days. I have never thought about whether Christmas was sustainable or not until I have been given this blog to write about it. It has never crossed my mind that thought about it because I was bought up in the commercial Christmas and not when it actually meant something I suppose. A sustainable Christmas would be an even more expensive Christmas than usual which nobody wants as it a lot of money anyways but that brings the question if you’re not religious why would you celebrate it? But it’s because of the point I’ve made that Christmas is not religious no more nor is it sustainable and it isn’t going to change in the near future as the world and companies revolve around money and Christmas is a major money spinner!

There are two ways in which Christmas would work in a changed world and that is either only the truly religious people celebrate it or you make an attempt to make it sustainable and make people change how they celebrate it. If only truly religious people celebrated it then it would cut down on a lot of people celebrating it meaning a lot less would be wasted and sold etc but this would mean damaging to the economy and to businesses. This would also mean that it would also still be unfair to just let religious people get extra days off work and people who aren’t get less days off so you would have to make it fair and equal in that way as well. The 2nd way would be to try and convince or make people be more sustainable would properly be a lot harder than the first way. To make people be sustainable this time of year is a bit like to fly using a fridge and a fridge magnet it’s never going to happen unless there is a miracle. Going back to the point made earlier that this is the only time of year where people relax be a bit more unsustainable than usual and get away from work life and get to see family friends. It is generally just a nice good day for people and there’s not many like that in England and many other places in the world. So I do think the “do-gooders” should just leave it alone and relax a bit it’s not like this is happening 24/7, 365 days a year it’s just once for each religion and I think they should respect the fact it is religious even if most people who celebrate it aren’t actually religious.