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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Response to Derrick Jensen Excerpt - TY

"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." - Derrick Jensen


A lot of unneeded waste is created. Our world could be much more efficient. How ever the human greed factor would have to go down. I believe there are several things wrong with world and we have to work with what we got. We need to have 0 waste before we can say you should have 0 waste. Which is why I support the 0 impact man.

I don't quite agree with the no electricity idea. There is more then one type of energy to use that does not produce waste. Water dams, solar panels, and geothermal wells. They have no impact and work. Strange enough whenever a geothermal well goes up there tends to be a unfortunate event where some pro-activist will sue the plant. Which doesn't quite make sense. Yet it happens any way.

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