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> 2) Landfills are on scarce land which will run out oneday, making waste disposal more expensive. Case 2 is an interesting case, it's a startlingly widespread
by catalogia 6y ago
> 2) Landfills are on scarce land which will run out oneday, making waste disposal more expensive.
Case 2 is an interesting case, it's a startlingly widespread fear yet seems ridiculous when you think about it for more than a few seconds. Slate Star Codex concluded it's alarmism sparked in the 80s by the media's coverage of the Mobro 4000 trash barge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobro_4000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobro_4000
Point 5 ("5. More And More Trash Piling Up Until The Whole World Is Just A Giant Mountain Of Trash"): https://web.archive.org/web/20190102054648/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/01/what-happened-to-90s-environmentalism/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190102054648/https://slatestar...
- lopmotr 6y agoWhich part of your point 5 link should I be looking at? Doesn't seem to be related.
- lopmotr 6y agoOh, I've never heard of drowning in rubbish! With 5) I'm referring to geological effects causing landfill land to collapse and get washed away. That happened recently in New Zealand and a river ended up full of rubbish from a disused landfill.
- catalogia 6y agoSorry, I mean Slate Star Codex's point 5 addresses your point 2. I communicated that poorly. Incidentally a nice (rather amusing) example from pop culture of the "landfills are filling up and we'll soon drown in trash" meme is Futurama episode 'A Big Piece of Garbage'* (S01E08) It's essentially a parody of that NYC trash barge incident and the movie Armageddon.