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Planting trees is in the same category of solutions as recycling. In theory you could plant a quadrillion trees, but realistically it won’t happen and instead t
by darth_avocado 3y ago
Planting trees is in the same category of solutions as recycling. In theory you could plant a quadrillion trees, but realistically it won’t happen and instead the initiative will be used as a way to increase our consumption and destruction of the planet even more.
Reduce, reuse and recycle was the original term. Everyone over indexed on recycling and completely abandoned the first two. (Instead we went the other way and started individually wrapping bananas in plastic)
- q845712 3y agoIn all fairness it's really hard to make money off of "reduce" and "reuse," and we've decided to use money as the system for allocating all of our resources.
- voisin 3y agoWell I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. A functioning ecosystem and a functioning economy in our present contemplation of the term are not compatible.
- wizofaus 3y agoI wonder about that - surely there must be a decent number of shoppers who'd prefer to buy products where you could reuse containers, for a start. Recycling perfectly good glass, metal or even plastic containers always feels terribly wasteful to me. And it has to be economically more efficient, so it should be possible to sell the product a lower cost.