Do you remember Sundays when................?

Question

You spent time with your family, went for Suday walks and just relaxed. Now you can shop till you drop-eat out-and do all those things that damage our environment. Are we really interested in preventing global warming? Isn't it just a big money making myth?

Answer 1

Yes I do remember all those things I did on a Sunday, but I don't see what that has to do with global warming. I rarely, if ever go shopping on a Sunday, and I'm sure that practicing my guitar, playing with my Grand Kids, or watching T.V. will increase the temperature of the planet.

Answer 2

We damage the environment Monday to Sunday, so do people suggest we stay indoors 24/7 we also damage the environment by just being alive so should Earths population have a mass-suicide? No. Global Warming and Global Cooling has always been around and always will be, regardless if the shops open on a Sunday. Sunday is moreof a traditional Religious day, I'm not religious so why should I have to suffer because of it.

"Isn't it just a big money making myth"

Yes, Global Warming is just a big money making myth.

Answer 3

ah the days of those Sundays - when we'd get in the car and ride around forever. I never did get that as being fun. But it doesn't seem as if it was too good for the environment either.
Or we'd build a big fire - good for the environment? I think not.
What really puzzles me and no one will answer is that the Farmer's Almanac is usually correct with their weather predictions. They do this based on the belief that weather repeats itself after a certain number of days - I dnon't recall the exact # but it's around 19 years. How can this be true if all is changing?
I think doing environmentally positive things is a smart thing to do no matter what one thinks about where we are headed with global warming or lack thereof.
It does seem that people who preach the loudest about global warming are the ones who use the most energy. And I don't just mean the celebs but people I have met in life who are energy hogs but talk the good talk.

Answer 4

I remember those Sundays, in a house full of parents and siblings with very little escape, coal fire making the living room too stuffy to breathe, horse racing on the TV droning on and on without end, big arguments with my parents, my father would yell at me and shake hell out of me, my mother would start crying, while my sister uttered a stream of cutting sarcasm - and it was always supposed to be my fault. Trapped there with nowhere to go.

Yeah... I remember. :(

I'm so glad that Sunday has opened up to the world. There are things to do now, places to go.

As for global warming, I doubt whether shops and similar being open on an extra day of the week makes any significant difference though it's possible. I think the main problem there are the big industries. There are a lot more of those these days than there were in the times you're talking about. I doubt whether it would be practical to close most of those for one day a week because it's a long and involved process to start them up and doing that every week would be unfeasible. (I may be wrong - this is an educated guess.)

Answer 5

I grew up in Pennsylvania with the Quaker laws as a child. When they dropped the laws about certain businesses opening on Sunday something was lost. We spent the day attending church in the am then went for a walk or a drive on Sunday afternoon and then had a family evening at home. I sure miss those days.

Answer 6

WeLL, apparently, everybody in this world would definitely hope that there would never be global warming.. However, since there is, all th ecountries in the world should work together and help prevent it.. That's the only thing everybody can do for now.. As for the rest, will just have to wait and see..

Answer 7

I think I found Sundays rather boring but didn't agree with shops opening on Sundays because it meant that someone had to leave their family and go to work. The retail trade said that people would only have to go on a voluntary basis on Sundays but of course, this has changed and now it is part of their contract. Surprise, surprise.

When I was little we weren't allowed out to play until about 11am on Sundays in case we woke any men who had been to work all week. There weren't many women working in those days. Then the Salvation Army would arrive most weeks and play hymns on the corner of our street. In the afternoon I went to Sunday School, which I didn't really enjoy but I did enjoy the Sunday school outings, the Sunday school anniversary when we all got dressed up in frilly dresses and the Harvest Festival. My mother always sent me with a marrow. I think they must have been cheap because I never knew her to cook a marrow.

Answer 8

I know this is gonna give me loads of thumbs downs but personally I dont really give a toss about global warming.
The world has been warming and cooling forever.
We are an intelligent species, we will adapt or die.
As for sundays, I for one am glad we are able to do a lot.
I work hard all week and only get the weekend off. I want to pack in as much as I can on these 2 days. Not waste it doing nothing.

Answer 9

I agree, I work in a shop we open Sundays which I'm not too keen on but still, it could be worse. What annoys me is customers who come in with about five half full carrier bags and buy something, You ask them if they want a bag and they say yes, I feel like saying to them you really do not need another bag, I know its a small thing but it really annoys me. I'm not some Eco warrior but every bit helps.

Answer 10

Sunday afternoons - the most boring times in existence. That's the way people used to think about it. People sang songs about how boring Sunday afternoons were, even wrote books about it.

Sundays were empty, devoid of life, devoid of interest, devoid of everything which tickles the neurons. They were painful days. Days when you just wanted to stay in bed all day because it was pointless getting up as there was absolutely nothing to do.