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It is all good. But I suppose we have more garbage problems to solve. Recently I finished house renovation and paid (not a small sum) to dispose of almost 3 me
by omgtehlion 8y ago
It is all good. But I suppose we have more garbage problems to solve.
Recently I finished house renovation and paid (not a small sum) to dispose of almost 3 metric tons of "cunstruction garbage". It contains metals, rocks, different finishes, detergents, fire retardants, plastics, glass, stained wood, paints with whatewer inside...
So in my lifetime I will produce ~70kg of corpse garbage + coffin etc, and compare this to 3000kg. Well I do not know what is more dangerous... Add to this usual daily household garbage, which is not sorted and recycled 100%, I find body disposal not the most pressing problem.
- jwr 8y agoThis is the way we "deal" with most problems. We say "butwhatabout" [insert something else here], which is a great excuse to do nothing. It's callet "whataboutism" and will quite likely eradicate humanity within the next hundred years or so, as we destroy our planet, all the while saying "butwhatabout" and pointing fingers.
- nathancahill 8y agoOn the other hand, we have "feel good solutions" like banning plastic straws, so people can pat themselves on the back for helping to solve the problems.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoMy favourite is soy / almond milk etc. If you don’t drink milk, why do you need a substitute? A substitute that comes in difficult to recycle aluminium-paper-plastic laminated cartons that still contain most of the food-miles and process / handling carbon emissions. Ok, hipocricy is everywhere and we can’t all be angels over night.
- eschutte2 8y agoThose aren't called milk because they're a substitute for anything, they're called milk because that's the English word for a cloudy translucent liquid. See also milk glass, milk thistle, and milk of magnesia. Speaking for myself, I drink almond milk because it tastes better than cow milk.
- gbear605 8y agoUsually, they want a substitute because they like foods that taste roughly like milk but they can’t drink milk. Is that too much to ask?
- gruez 8y agobut none of the vegetable "milks" taste anywhere close to mammalian milk.
- gbear605 8y agoNo? I haven’t tried almond milk, but rice milk tastes similar.
- 7952 8y agoBut what else would you put on your corn flakes?
- astura 8y agoSo? Skim milk tastes nothing like full fat milk, but still has a right to exist. It's something sorta similar to milk that can be used in roughly the same applications - lighten coffee, moisten cereal, baking, sauces, fold into mashed potatoes, etc. I prefer the taste of pretty much all nut milks to cows milk, personally.
- vkou 8y agoMost people drink soy/almond milk because they like the taste, or because their bodies aren't very good at digesting lactose.
- freedomben 8y agoAllergies to casein are also becoming much more common.
- wild_preference 8y agoI don't know anyone who drinks non-dairy milks for concerns over carbon emissions. It's always been one of or a mix of dietary concerns, taste preference, or avoidance of the awful dairy industry. Also, where I live, dairy comes in those tetrapaks, too.
- BurningFrog 8y agoAlso known as "something-ism". 1. We must do something! 2. Banning straws is something! 3. We did it!!
- waynecochran 8y agoMy favorite is wearing ribbons for a cause.
- Eridrus 8y agoUnlike other waste, we position cemeteries (relatively) close to where people live because they want to visit, so it has a larger impact on people. Not sure why this article shits on cremation though, the greenhouse gases emitted seem truly minor.
- verelo 8y agoAlso construction waste is a debatable one. Sure it's not good stuff, but did you produce it? Or did you just move it? I'm sure, at least....i hope, whatever you replaced it with in the house is better for the occupants than the materials you removed.
- omgtehlion 8y ago> but did you produce it? Well, I paid for it to be produced. If I would not commission this, less paints and other chemicals would be required. Less coal would be burnt to produce cement used to create concrete.
- omgtehlion 8y agoYep, that makes sense. At least garbage is moved far away, so it’s someone else’s problem. Re cremation: I have heard, that to reduce a body to nice ashes takes a lot of heat and requires too much natural gas or whatever they burn in your local crematorium. Bodies do not vurn by themselves, and if you use just enough fuel to set it on fire, you’ll get bad smelling and bad looking coal-like substance covering bones... That alkaline reduction seems ok though.
- Eridrus 8y agoCremation puts 540 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere; the average human breathing puts out 2.3 pounds of CO2, so it's basically the same as breathing for an extra 234 days. Or being an American for ~3 days. We have far larger fish to fry.