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Absolutely not. Waste fuels the economy. There's no shortage of metal, only the price of metal. As for people, spending a couple of years in the military is mu
by Grakel 5y ago
Absolutely not. Waste fuels the economy. There's no shortage of metal, only the price of metal.
As for people, spending a couple of years in the military is much better personal development for many young people than going to college at an age when most people can't appreciate it.
These things aside, of course the loss of life is horrific and a terrible waste.
- Apocryphon 5y ago1 in 5 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are diagnosed with PTSD. And veterans account for 20 percent of U.S. suicides. https://facethefactsusa.org/facts/the-true-price-of-war-in-human-terms/ https://facethefactsusa.org/facts/the-true-price-of-war-in-h...
- kortex 5y agoOn the other hand, college was tough, but didn't kill/maim/disfigure/traumatize me.
- Sharlin 5y ago> Waste fuels the economy. Yeah, and see what mess that sort of thinking has got us into. Economic growth is worthless if it’s not sustainable.
- yunohn 5y ago> There's no shortage of metal, only the price of metal Metal is a non-renewable resource. Cost of extraction does not match market price, more so when unnecessary demand is created for wars. What kind of spin is this?
- Grakel 5y agoThere's probably more metal in the solar system than the volume of Earth.
- yunohn 5y agoI guess this kind of retort would help you in a pub quiz.
- Grakel 5y agoThere's no shortage of metal, that's the point. Open your mind.
- stevenhuang 5y agoThere is an effective shortage of resources since the capacity to mine for them is not infinite, and production cannot meet demands.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoAnd the metal in space doesn't help us with our current technology. Obviously. "We can't have a metal shortage because there's lots of metal in space" is not the most coherent argument I've heard today...
- Grakel 5y agoWhat I originally said was there's no metal shortage, only the price of metal. We'll be mining the solar system long before we run out of metal on earth. For aluminum, for instance, there's an insane amount in the Earth's crust.
- stevenhuang 5y agoSupply and demand informs price. Not the other way around. That's why your argument makes no sense.
- kortex 5y agoAh yes, technical truth, the best kind of truth. There could be asteroids of pure palladium, platinum, gold, and silver, and it wouldn't matter a fig until it was cost competitive with digging rocks out of the ground, sticking them on a slow barge to a massive refinery and processing them with cheap, probably exploitative, labor.
- m4rtink 5y agoI don't think you can call material sources renewable, well unless we talk wood, leather or whale fat I guess. But in general metals can be recycled quite well and often are recycled due to their price. Also even if you finely shredded it and mixed it with other stuff the resulting mix would still most likely have higher grade than regular ore & mining it would thus be economicaly viable.
- yunohn 5y agoI’m not sure why you imagine that wartime wreckage and artillery is often recycled?
- guskel 5y agoWhat you're positing here is basically the "Broken Window" fallacy.