#2 2013-03-19 11:23:10
The only true solution to our environmental problems is the elimination of the consumption economy; obviously our Huxleyism culture prevents that from happening. Happily steadily declining population rates will eventually reverse our environmental course and so the primary question remains: will it be in time.
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#3 2013-03-19 12:28:31
Probably a good time to get rid of those old monitors collecting dust in the garage before the fees to dispose of them go through the roof.
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#4 2013-03-19 13:33:53
The next Dallas-level tycoons will be the ones who perfect the process of automatically separating non-ferrous metals and disparate plastic streams.
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#5 2013-03-19 20:51:00
I know nothing about glass except it shatters if I drop it. However I do know that lead crystal can be very expensive. Perhaps that is the business that should be looked at as a way to get rid of all of this. Glass definitely melts easily and is just as easily made into other things like candy dishes and vases.
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#6 2013-03-20 08:58:55
doesyourpussyhurt wrote:
I know nothing about glass except it shatters if I drop it. However I do know that lead crystal can be very expensive. Perhaps that is the business that should be looked at as a way to get rid of all of this. Glass definitely melts easily and is just as easily made into other things like candy dishes and vases.
Thats how they dispose of some of the byproducts of refining nuclear fuel, they forge it into a glass product much like leaded glass, except it's an amalgamation of heavy metals and glass. But I wouldn't make a food container out of it...
Nah, we will keep doing just what we are doing with it. Either throwing it in a hole in the ground or shipping it to Asia to be reduced to metal by 10 year old kids in smoldering rubbish heaps.
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#7 2013-03-20 11:34:04
It's interesting to note the slowing/reversal of consumption growth in first world countries; as population growth retreats GNP growth will also retreat as after all there are less and less of us and as we age our desire for toys decreases (i.e. I have a very nice TV and am not in a hurry to go drop a grand on the next best model). The politicians seem hell bent on reversing decreasing GDP growth via immigration, legal or illegal - however that remains only a temporary Band-Aid for the long term issue of population retraction due to the success of Huxleyism and education of the population. As the second and third worlds advance and educate birth rates continue to drop in those societies as well.
Perhaps we should consider the reality that our world as a society is evolving yet again and it appears to be inevitable.
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