Japan's environmental concern is as shallow as a puddle

The first sign of silliness is the countless unnecessary bags they give you in shops even when you buy one thing. Inside all the other packages it just adds up to being a farce so that after I've eaten lunch there's this sodding mound of paper and plastic bags and cartons to throw away. I think the Japanese believe that because they recycle it that it's enough, and they get to call themselves green. And on the bags it says things like 'ecology!' or 'save the environment!', the irony being completely lost on them as they dump another load into the smiley bins. It says the same on throwaway spoons and chopsticks too, as if by writing ecology on something you use once and throw away has any concern for um, ecology. Hilarious.

The average car in Japan seems to be a 2.0 litre V6 planet fcuker, many of them having those poxy exhausts which make the car sound throatier, and somehow more, um, manly. Well, it certainly sounds angry and manly when they park outside my flat at one o'clock in the morning slamming their car doors. Yeah, wow, that's manly.

I sometimes go past a car garage when cycling around and on the forecourt there are vans with their lights flashing and engines running - all day. Their engines are left running all day. I had to repeat that because it's so stupid it makes me want to spit. Look everyone - our vans work!

Environment? Ecology? No, that is all forgotten about apart from a few nonsense phrases on wasteful cartons. The environment might as well give up because there really is no hope. Especially not from here anyway.