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Efficiency doesn't mean lowering total waste and often creates more. Reducing is strategic. Efficiency, such as bio-degradable straws and most newer technologi
by spodek 7y ago
Efficiency doesn't mean lowering total waste and often creates more.
Reducing is strategic. Efficiency, such as bio-degradable straws and most newer technologies like you described, is tactical.
I covered this in part in my podcast "episode 183: Reusing and recycling are tactical. Reducing is strategic": https://shows.pippa.io/leadership-and-the-environment/episodes/183-reusing-and-recycling-are-tactical-reducing-is-strategic https://shows.pippa.io/leadership-and-the-environment/episod....
I'm sorry you think reduction is misguided. Your appeal to human nature opposes hundreds of thousands of years of human history before the past few thousand.
- pembrook 7y agoI believe reduction would certainly solve the problem. I just don't think it's possible to make happen (I elaborated on this further in the comment below). Is it possible the reason humans in the past didn't consume as much, was simply because they lacked the technology to allow them to? If you gave a human from 10,000 B.C. a private jet, while also telling him that jet is bad for the environment, that human would still be flying all over the globe in an instant. I don't think humans were somehow more morally conscientious in the past. And I'm not sure we should be aiming to head back to those "glory days" of 20 year lifespans and terrible infant mortality rates.
- chillwaves 7y agoHow would reducing consumption affect infant mortality rates?
- pembrook 7y agoIt wouldn't. I didn't say that.