A prescient warning to us all. Although I don’t like them incinerators being blocked by activists is part of the problem…It’s all so one sided with the excessive packaging , but nowhere to dispose of it….
Ah, the cargo culture. Didn't that Junior Catton guy say something about overshoot a few years ago? Who listens to scientific observations anyway? Drill baby drill!
Puerto Rico is just a preview of what awaits the rest of the world. When you base an economy on the concept of perpetual growth, the inevitable result is the exhaustion of resources. Manufacturers now use extremely low quality in order to keep production going, creating our landfill economy. The end result is illustrated in James Howard Kunstler's "World Made by Hand" series that explores what happens when the oil is all used up. Those who own landfills become the providers by mining the buried trash for usable items, like bent nails and empty glass containers. As pointed out here by David Kirtley, recycling is a cruel joke. Our relentless pursuit of comfort through technology will get us to a point where the resources needed to keep it going will be exhausted. Already makers of electric cars are having to consider reducing the range of cars because the materials needed to make batteries are becoming scarce. In this podcast (https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/kunstlercast-411) Christopher Bystroff theorizes that we are at or past the population that the earth can carry. When this happens in nature, the organism that has excessive numbers dies off until equilibrium is again reached.
Globalists flying around in private jets, spouting green depopulation agendas doesn't really cut it though. The flawed system rewards excess and devious pollution and also reduces the ability of the biosphere to bounce back. Profit/greed is the driver for the unlimited and wasteful growth that led to this imbalance, but people like Gates say we need to reduce the population oh, of other (lesser) people. Nobody's willing to give up too much convenience or priviledge especially at the top levels of wealth and power so it carries on. Maybe when the financial collapse and backlash from the plandemic hits we'll see how futile it is to pursue lofty goals of wealth and power without being accountable and responsible for the environment. Maybe we forgot that we're interconnected to all life, in so many ways that we're just beginning to understand and need the big push to change our ways.
It's not just Puerto Rico. They are just the canary in the coal mine warning of what is going on everywhere.
It really comes down to the fact that the environmental movement has been destroyed by both the faction that has used it to promote their Marxist dreams along with the corporate leaches that have made it a scam by just promoting lip service over actually addressing the problems.
99.5% of all recycling is a scam. Yes, that is a totally made up statistic but I believe it is most likely accurate -- if not conservative. Just about every product that you buy is ridiculously over packaged. Everything is designed for single use.
One of the biggest sources of the waste is companies making things intentionally non-interchangeable to create vendor lock-in. They also want to make everything non-serviceable so things have to be replaced rather than repaired.
Not a single mention in the article about all the money wasted by the PR gov't. Here's what U.S. taxpayers send: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-are-annual-subsidies-of-p-8ejvzkyHSYWfftSI8hmZsw
A prescient warning to us all. Although I don’t like them incinerators being blocked by activists is part of the problem…It’s all so one sided with the excessive packaging , but nowhere to dispose of it….
Ah, the cargo culture. Didn't that Junior Catton guy say something about overshoot a few years ago? Who listens to scientific observations anyway? Drill baby drill!
Puerto Rico is just a preview of what awaits the rest of the world. When you base an economy on the concept of perpetual growth, the inevitable result is the exhaustion of resources. Manufacturers now use extremely low quality in order to keep production going, creating our landfill economy. The end result is illustrated in James Howard Kunstler's "World Made by Hand" series that explores what happens when the oil is all used up. Those who own landfills become the providers by mining the buried trash for usable items, like bent nails and empty glass containers. As pointed out here by David Kirtley, recycling is a cruel joke. Our relentless pursuit of comfort through technology will get us to a point where the resources needed to keep it going will be exhausted. Already makers of electric cars are having to consider reducing the range of cars because the materials needed to make batteries are becoming scarce. In this podcast (https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/kunstlercast-411) Christopher Bystroff theorizes that we are at or past the population that the earth can carry. When this happens in nature, the organism that has excessive numbers dies off until equilibrium is again reached.
Globalists flying around in private jets, spouting green depopulation agendas doesn't really cut it though. The flawed system rewards excess and devious pollution and also reduces the ability of the biosphere to bounce back. Profit/greed is the driver for the unlimited and wasteful growth that led to this imbalance, but people like Gates say we need to reduce the population oh, of other (lesser) people. Nobody's willing to give up too much convenience or priviledge especially at the top levels of wealth and power so it carries on. Maybe when the financial collapse and backlash from the plandemic hits we'll see how futile it is to pursue lofty goals of wealth and power without being accountable and responsible for the environment. Maybe we forgot that we're interconnected to all life, in so many ways that we're just beginning to understand and need the big push to change our ways.
Absolutely agree, Jim. Don't you think that die off is already happening? Some people seem to want to help it along, too.
It's not just Puerto Rico. They are just the canary in the coal mine warning of what is going on everywhere.
It really comes down to the fact that the environmental movement has been destroyed by both the faction that has used it to promote their Marxist dreams along with the corporate leaches that have made it a scam by just promoting lip service over actually addressing the problems.
99.5% of all recycling is a scam. Yes, that is a totally made up statistic but I believe it is most likely accurate -- if not conservative. Just about every product that you buy is ridiculously over packaged. Everything is designed for single use.
One of the biggest sources of the waste is companies making things intentionally non-interchangeable to create vendor lock-in. They also want to make everything non-serviceable so things have to be replaced rather than repaired.