Five things that won't save the world

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Saw this on Cracked.com:

http://www.cracked.com/article_17084_5-ways-people-are-trying-save-world-that-dont-work.html

Comments

[narniadear.livejournal.com]

Would you do me a gigantic favor and post the text under a cut? I'm blocked from the website at work and I really want to read it. :)

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

It's got two pages of big graphics and text...can you read it when you get home? If not, let me know.

[snackbreak.livejournal.com]

I agree with him on the antibacterial soap, but dude knows shit about recycling. He should have researched that better, only I think he was more interested in being funny than factual.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

It depends what you recycle, and how, and at what economic and environmental cost (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-445354/Environmentalists-fury-plastic-bottles-shipped-China-recycling.html), and if there's even a market for it (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1104741/Recycling-crisis-Taxpayers-foot-UKs-growing-waste-paper-mountain-market-collapses.html)...

[snackbreak.livejournal.com]

LOL x a million at that first link. That's really hilarious. I think that is a huge part of the problem with the organic market too, actually - it's a large part of why my sister (who is into sustainable local produce etc. etc.) looks at Trader Joe's with a huge amount of scorn.


For the second link - if they are unable to recycle the paper, I don't understand why they need to spend craptons of money storing it, rather than just dumping it at the dump like all the other waste we can't find a better outlet for, but hey, I'm not in the government, so I guess wasting billions just isn't in my genetic make-up. :P

What would be interesting is if recycling was like anything else - consumer driven. If no taxpayer dollars were involved and instead products made through recycling charged whatever they need to charge I wonder what would happen. Some people would spend the extra money though - kind of like the katrillion people in Portland that are shopping local and/or organic.

**nods***

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

I run my own garden organically because it's easier and cheaper if you live in the country (and really, who cares if your flowers aren't as productive?) but... as a result I know EXACTLY what those "organic" plants are grown in.

***shudders***

Give me those nice safe chemicals please!

[shezan.livejournal.com]

CLASSIC! CLASSIC! CLASSIC!!!

[lilliew.livejournal.com]

Wonderfully awesome. (I'm still going to recycle my non-biodegradable stuff though, gotta keep people employed!)

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

I give cans to one lady at work who turns them in for the deposit money, which she donates to Operation Smile.

[scarletwalk.livejournal.com]

^That's the only reason why I recycle in the first place.

Right on!

[la-christine.livejournal.com]

I lived near a small town that housed a lumber mill and knew people who worked there and I went to school with a guy whose parents were in the conservation business (i.e. they planted trees). I'm always so amazed that people can't figure out that trees are like corn, wheat, etc. You plant it, it grows, you harvest and then you plant more trees. The difference of course is the time it takes to grow but the philosophy is the same.

Just a point of interest

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

There's never been a single species that went extinct as a result of logging. There's never been a forest decimated (in modern times, mind you) from logging. Commercial loggin is VERY good for the environment, if what you want is more trees, more species.

What waxes the planet is agriculture and wossname--goats and cattle and housing. All of which are *more* likely to happen to a particular spot of forestland if you make managed logging out of bounds. Oops!

[scarletwalk.livejournal.com]

This is hilarious. I got a good laugh from it.

I was talking to my mom about the pointlessness of recycling for environmental purposes a few hours ago. I think that recycling is overall a smart idea (because reusing our resources is a good "just in case" thing), but the whole environmental background around it is just pointless to me. There are millions of more trucks and factories out there because of recycling (ZOMG CO2 EMISSIONS U GUYZ!!!!1111oneone!!111). Just like every other liberal opinion out there, this one on the environment and recycling is like a piece of swiss cheese.

Yeah, using the environment as an excuse to recycle = 'effing stupid.

nothing can really save the world

[queensiri.livejournal.com]

hairspray and all that didn't save ozone layer either.The other thing comes to my mind is the current adminstration