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Yes, perfection is the enemy of the good. In fact the most sustainable mentality is for the epa to provide information only, and allow people to choose how ris
by strawhatguy 4y ago
Yes, perfection is the enemy of the good. In fact the most sustainable mentality is for the epa to provide information only, and allow people to choose how risky they wish to behave.
- XorNot 4y agoHow do you think this would work with airborne or waterborne pollution?
- soulofmischief 4y agoThat isn't what I asked. I was asking if this policy/mentality is sustainable for our planet, not for my own personal life.
- antisthenes 4y agoThe only thing that isn't sustainable for our planet is that the Sun will eventually expand and consume it, permanently. How do you figure the PM2.5 level is tied to the sustainability of the planet? Or even the ecosystem we enjoy?
- Dalewyn 4y agoThe planet gives precisely zero fucks what happens on it, let alone whether it's "sustainable". As already mentioned elsewhere too, the Sun will eventually grow fat with helium and nom the planet along with a couple more.
- soulofmischief 4y agoThis completely sidesteps the issue. No one asked if the planet was alive. When an educated person says or hears "the planet", they should, unless context dictates otherwise, interpret it to mean the entire biosphere. This is a question of morality and fairness to all life. This anthropocentrist mentality is short-sighted and selfish. And just because the sun expands in a few billion years doesn't mean I shouldn't be nice to my neighbor today.
- Dalewyn 4y agoConsidering the Earth was much hotter and colder with vastly different concentrations of atmospheric gasses at given points in time than it is today, yes it is "sustainable". The planet and life at large do not give a damn. The Earth will continue to orbit and spin and life will go on, until one day the Sun decides it's time to get fat and eat a couple planets.
- soulofmischief 4y agoDoes the planet not give a damn, or do you just not give a damn?
- Dalewyn 4y agoThe planet gives no damns, mainly because the planet can't and won't give any damns.
- strawhatguy 4y agoDidn’t see the response til now. It’s odd though: the lead comes from the planet, there’s a set amount of it. the most humans do is increase it’s entropy. So I’m not sure talking about lead levels in the planet makes sense: they’ve been about the same planet-wide. Meteorites I guess? Hardly a man-made mechanism though.