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Reducing waste can only go so far - zero waste - and worse, it has diminishing returns. Improving technology, on the other hand, has no upper bound and builds o
by lopmotr 7y ago
Reducing waste can only go so far - zero waste - and worse, it has diminishing returns. Improving technology, on the other hand, has no upper bound and builds on itself to enable even more improvements.
Imagine if people had just reduced food waste instead of inventing fertilizer? We probably wouldn't have western civilization.
- chiefalchemist 7y agoPerhaps. But that's not the point. The waste isn't limited to food itself, but the resources to grow it, transport it, and even dispose of it. The solution of "make more" doesn't actaully address the problems