Re: Recycling is wrong.

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From: Axel Boldt
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 17:13

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In article <27577@dog.ee.lbl.gov> b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman) writes:

[Speaking of recycling versus reduction:]

>I would suggest using the analogy to medicine.  Preventative medicine
>is nearly always much better to do than treating disease/illness/injury
>after the fact.  That doesn't mean you don't treat sick people, but
>it does mean you try to have lots fewer sick people in the first place.

Everyone thinks that it's a bad thing to get a disease, even
if it's treatable. We were much better of if everyone would think that
it's a bad thing to buy a product, even if it's recycable.

Axel.

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