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Article #129Recycling is wrong.
From: Axel Boldt
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:00
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!sun-barr!ames!network.ucsd.edu!ucsbcsl!ucsbuxa!6500axel From: 6500axel@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Axel Boldt) Newsgroups: ca.environment Subject: Recycling is wrong. Message-ID: <6784@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 20 Nov 92 03:00:02 GMT References: <40871@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <27417@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Reply-To: 6500axel@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Lines: 28