So the choice is to recycle.....which is then all shipped somewhere for landfill.
If it was as bad as some lead us to believe, ban air travel, ban any vehicle which would not met the new standards, new or old, as a start. Make produce only availiable locally, restrict distance people can travel to work or leisure and get back to local community.
In other words, take industry back 100 yrs and accept, rich or poor, surviving is enough, want no longer exists only needs.
Unfortuntely nice soundbites like act local think global mean nothing; to act too early is as bad as acting too late.
I think about it like his: I work for a company 100 yrs old. It's like making heavy financial and srategic changes for the next 100yrs based on the last 5 mins of trading. I'd be mad too, so why take decisions onthe last 100 yrs of history without thought to the prevous millions?!
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