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Recycling is wrong.

#129
From: Axel Boldt
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:00
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In article <27417@dog.ee.lbl.gov> b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman) 
writes:

>In article <40871@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, ph600fcy@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Matthew
>Harrington) writes:

>|> I'd like to decorate my bumper with some stickers promoting
>|> environmentalism and recycling.  Does anyone know a  source
>|> for these?

>Just be aware that there is some amount of cognitive dissonance
>in putting environmental labels on a car, which has caused
>a tremendous amount of environmental damage in California.
>And of course, bumperstickers aren't recyclable.

There is still another contradiction: recycling <-> environmentalism. I 
think we should promote the *reduction* of ressource consumption. 
Everything else is on the wrong track. Recycling uses tremendous amounts 
of energy, and it is no cycle at all: it is a spiral going down. The quality
of the recycled product is always less than the quality of the product
you started with. 

It's the old game: trying to find technological solutions for problems
caused by wrong behaviour. It won't work!

Reduction and Reusing is the only way!

Axel.
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