09-10-18, 04:51 AM
My thoughts on this, correct me if I'm missing something.
Ironic/"funny" part: beavers build dams, humans make plastic. Planet loves plastic, we're a part of the planet.
We've been here for a relatively very short time and not that anyone would miss us if we pollute ourselves to death.
Bit more serious: more humans, more polution. Limiting a number of new borns worldwide would get us within a manageable number of people, with more than enough resources and less pollution.
Seriously: We've had a company VW Golf 2 diesel. It ran for over 20 years! As a company car. Used very little fuel. I wonder if that's less eco than modern cars that have filters, but use the same amount of fuel per 100 kms, if not more, due to engine being suffocated with all the exhaust filters. How much pollution does making a new car do? Golf 2 can last for 20-30 years, while modern cars are "phased out" after 5 years, with strong government incentives for new, "eco" cars... Plus Golf 2 runs on filtered, used food frying oil.
Same goes for most other products - capitalism, with consumerism, leads to pollution. People are encouraged to buy more often, new stuff, discouraged from repairing the old. New stuff is designed so it doesn't last long AND so it's expensive to repair. Plus, you have a "free market" with 1000 different variants of the same thing - instead of choosing a most durable, easyest and cleanest to produce models, of high quality, making them in large series.
Ironic/"funny" part: beavers build dams, humans make plastic. Planet loves plastic, we're a part of the planet.
We've been here for a relatively very short time and not that anyone would miss us if we pollute ourselves to death.Bit more serious: more humans, more polution. Limiting a number of new borns worldwide would get us within a manageable number of people, with more than enough resources and less pollution.
Seriously: We've had a company VW Golf 2 diesel. It ran for over 20 years! As a company car. Used very little fuel. I wonder if that's less eco than modern cars that have filters, but use the same amount of fuel per 100 kms, if not more, due to engine being suffocated with all the exhaust filters. How much pollution does making a new car do? Golf 2 can last for 20-30 years, while modern cars are "phased out" after 5 years, with strong government incentives for new, "eco" cars... Plus Golf 2 runs on filtered, used food frying oil.
Same goes for most other products - capitalism, with consumerism, leads to pollution. People are encouraged to buy more often, new stuff, discouraged from repairing the old. New stuff is designed so it doesn't last long AND so it's expensive to repair. Plus, you have a "free market" with 1000 different variants of the same thing - instead of choosing a most durable, easyest and cleanest to produce models, of high quality, making them in large series.
Most things done in a hurry need to be done again - patiently.