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Disposables are only the better option when you move some part of the entire planet outside the system you are measuring.
by manicdee 8y ago
Disposables are only the better option when you move some part of the entire planet outside the system you are measuring.
- brownbat 8y agoIs your worry that we'll convert every inch to landfill? Rest assured, at the rate we create landfills, the tectonic plates will push our landfills below the surface of the Earth and create new untouched landmasses before we run out of space. There are unintuitive results in this domain. Highly recommend you check out some of the lit, like Hocking mentioned above.
- manicdee 8y agoHave a talk to any marine biologist about how effective landfill is as a means of disposal. Single use plastics are a hair behind AGW when it comes to existential threats to humanity as a whole. We’ll poison the oceans long before landfill becomes an issue.