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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
So... your answer is to just let the planet go straight to Hell, since everybody's too LAZY to do things right? Since it would be simply and literally impossible to remove every gram of chemicals that are considered poison from our lives (including most processed and some non-processed foods, clothing, cleaning products, PAPER, electronics, your car, your phone, etc, etc), how do you propose supporting almost 7 billion people in a way that is environmentally beneficial?
I suppose we could quite literally bomb ourselves back to the stone age...hang in there....its coming..
(I apologize for leaving off there, as it came out just sounding crass... but I was hurrying to catch a train...)
The reasons you list for this being a difficult proposition is not, in themselves, reasons not to do them. Instead, it's an excellent reason to step up our efforts to recycle and properly dispose of things.
Sure, most people will have to go out of their way to more reliably recycle and dispose of things in a safe way, and a lot of lazy people won't like the extra work. A lot of non-lazy people won't like it either, because it is sure to cost more. But we can't afford to not do it because it will inconvenience us... it needs to be done, and the longer we delay, the worse the problem will become, and the more inconvenient it will be later.
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We wern't talking about removing EVERYTHING with poison, were we? We were talking about CFL bulbs......thats all.
No......regardless of the "feel good" mentality out there, I am looking a little further than just using a bulb to save some energy.........I'm looking at the end result, ie, those same bulbs in the landfills.
How you propose to insure these bulbs get re-cycled is not clear. Again, you are preaching to the choir here. I recycle, but what about the majority who don't? Those are the ones you have to worry about, and who will continue to throw these things into the trash.
You can rant until the cows come home. This won't change human behavior. And this is something no one is talking about.
All these "wonderful, energy saving bulbs", most being made in the wonderfully environmentally conscious country of China.....being tossed into landfills, the mercury to eventually seep into the earth......lovely.
If it wasn't so sad, it would be funny.