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Got any evidence to back that up? You’re implying that wasting less food is somehow either distracting or taking resources away from real problems. In my experi

by jamil7 7y ago

Got any evidence to back that up? You’re implying that wasting less food is somehow either distracting or taking resources away from real problems. In my experience it’s the people doing nothing that are so quick to point fingers and find fault with every attempt at improving our situation.

prepend 7y ago
I think bikeshedding [0] is evidence. [0] https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Parkinsons-law-of-triviality-bikeshedding https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Parkinsons-law-of-t...
colechristensen 7y ago
Plastic straws is perfect. Politicians spending time advocating for, writing legislation, promoting, debating, and bragging about such things is all an enormous distraction which fools people into thinking something is being done and satisfies people would would have been disadvantaged. If politicians literally did nothing all day people would be upset and force action. Instead politicians do the absolute minimum to seem like they are doing something when they are not. The reason abortion, alternative identity/sexuality, the NEA, gun restrictions, extreme social benefit changes, etc dominate political attention is precisely because nothing of consequence will ever actually happen while people cheer for their cause and their team. Kicking stones when mountains need to be moved isn't progress and should be reviled instead of celebrated.
- jamil7 7y ago
  Plastic straws are a good example. I was asking more specifically about wasting less food though, at an individual basis I don't see how this can really be a bad or distracting thing.
lotsofpulp 7y ago
Recycling. All that effort to recycle and educate people about recycling and laws and bullshit, all to send it back in containers to China to be dumped in a landfill so that people wouldn’t feel like all their consumption was damaging. All of that energy and time could have been used to educate people about reducing their consumption of materials, energy, and space. But maybe that’s not what people want anyway.
- jamil7 7y ago
  Fair enough but I'd argue thats a failure of the current recycling industry. My initial comment was related to food wastage, sorry if it wasn't clear.

by jamil7 7y ago

prepend 7y ago

I think bikeshedding [0] is evidence. [0] https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Parkinsons-law-of-triviality-bikeshedding https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Parkinsons-law-of-t...

colechristensen 7y ago

Plastic straws is perfect. Politicians spending time advocating for, writing legislation, promoting, debating, and bragging about such things is all an enormous distraction which fools people into thinking something is being done and satisfies people would would have been disadvantaged. If politicians literally did nothing all day people would be upset and force action. Instead politicians do the absolute minimum to seem like they are doing something when they are not. The reason abortion, alternative identity/sexuality, the NEA, gun restrictions, extreme social benefit changes, etc dominate political attention is precisely because nothing of consequence will ever actually happen while people cheer for their cause and their team. Kicking stones when mountains need to be moved isn't progress and should be reviled instead of celebrated.

jamil7 7y ago
Plastic straws are a good example. I was asking more specifically about wasting less food though, at an individual basis I don't see how this can really be a bad or distracting thing.

lotsofpulp 7y ago

Recycling. All that effort to recycle and educate people about recycling and laws and bullshit, all to send it back in containers to China to be dumped in a landfill so that people wouldn’t feel like all their consumption was damaging. All of that energy and time could have been used to educate people about reducing their consumption of materials, energy, and space. But maybe that’s not what people want anyway.

jamil7 7y ago
Fair enough but I'd argue thats a failure of the current recycling industry. My initial comment was related to food wastage, sorry if it wasn't clear.