Response to Derrick Jensen Excerpt - SC

"Or let’s talk waste. In 2005, per-capita municipal waste production (basically everything that’s put out at the curb) in the U.S. was about 1,660 pounds. Let’s say you’re a die-hard simple-living activist, and you reduce this to zero. You recycle everything. You bring cloth bags shopping. You fix your toaster. Your toes poke out of old tennis shoes. You’re not done yet, though. Since municipal waste includes not just residential waste, but also waste from government offices and businesses, you march to those offices, waste reduction pamphlets in hand, and convince them to cut down on their waste enough to eliminate your share of it. Uh, I’ve got some bad news. Municipal waste accounts for only 3 percent of total waste production in the United States." - D. Jensen


In that paragraph there are to many how who would throw that away with out a second glance many of us wouldn't even recycle it. That just goes to show that to many people are stubborn or they don't recycle enough. If the whole state of Oregon stopped using electricity, started recycling, and stopped the government offices and waste buildings, all of this would only amount to 3% of the USA's waste.

If only all Americans could do this, but that would be a miracle. Almost every American would say absolutely not, but I wish that it would be a "Ya lets do it" I wish that's what they would say, but yet again that would be a miracle. Americans have grown attached to their electronics and their lifestyles. It would be hard to give them up, it would be really hard. The food would be different so would the interests, it would be simpler than now we would have a harder time making war machines, food, and houses. That would all be alright by me, It would be all right by me.