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Surely for a lot of applications, alternative materials are available, they just cost more. The ‘replacement’ will be paying more (what a surprise)

• roughly 3y ago
  Except it sort of seems like the reason the materials we chose were so cheap in the first place is because we didn’t factor in all of the costs, such as the costs of removing them from the environment and the bodies of every living thing in every corner of the planet, so maybe they just Looked cheap?
  • NovaDudely 3y ago
    This is the asymmetric nature of people. The needs/wants of today out rule those of tomorrow even if it means making tomorrow worse. It is not set in stone but it is very prevalent in our societies nowadays.
    • roughly 3y ago
      This is the asymmetric nature of modern western people. This has not always been the way of people - many people at many places over many times had cultures whose decision making time horizons extended beyond their noses. It’s all we’ve known, and our grandparents and great grandparents pushed it on everyone else at the barrel of a gun so we think it’s all anyone’s ever known, but an awful lot of people lived in cultures that were aware the future existed and they were going to live there some day.
      • NovaDudely 3y ago
        Exactly, this is an atribute that comes out of societies not inherant nature.