Plastic good for the environment?

[Vinodh Valluri]

http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/23/stories/2011062363550300.htm

 

Plastic bags are neither a small nor a big issue. Save the trees, Use plastic?

How much more ignorant could people get? Plastic is what is choking up Mother Earth's throat!!!

What is the general intellectual understanding - that jute and cloth bags are for rich people??? What was it like in 1970s and 80s, when to carry plastic was fashionable "English", and jute bags were the sickly indicators of a not so rich/educated person. Is this happening in India, the country where Gandhi imagined the wheel spinning local cotton as the symbol of progress? Where is the supposed feeling of pride in India now? What the hell is happening with our understanding of any issue? :D 

You decide!