@LordSupremeChess said in #1:
> Any questions???
Why do you use 3 question marks?
Isn't this redundant? I know it's abysmal in the grand scheme of things. But those two extra question marks, are an excessive waste ;-)
Joke aside, to stay on topic, here is my question:
Which commercial product would you ban or put under higher legislation?
Either completely, or at least restrict under certain circumstances?
For example:
We (humans) have the ability and technology to make lightbulbs last for a 100 years, but from a business standpoint, then it is not feasible. A company can only survive when they keep selling products.
So currently lightbulbs are built to break after a certain period of time. (X amount of hours)
Another example:
Chewing gum (there are medical purposes out there, to be taken into consideration)
But as a commercial product, it's a waste of resources, both to produce and to dispose.
One thing to keep in mind though, is when removing products from a market, is that it also removes jobs.
And removing a job, also removes food from someone mouth.
Many products that ain't cost effective, or even necessary from a environmental perspective, is nevertheless important to the workers who either fabricate it, or harvest the resources for the manufacturing process.
So another job/industry must be created simultaneously (or prior) when dismantling a business.
For example:
It's easy in Europe to critique other countries for not sorting out their garbage. When we ourselves ships huge piles of garbage abroad, because it's more cost effective that way for us.
Imagine if you go to Ghana, and criticize them for pollution as a third world country, they would just point over their shoulders, to their imported garbage dumps from rich countries waste.
Rich countries, who has the money to deal with it, yet prefer to be comfortable and environmental friendly.
(Friendly to their own environment, but out of sight = out of mind)
This isn't humane. Letting others countries sort out our trash. Especially not when we don't even provide them the infrastructure, to do it properly and as environmental as possible.
Shipping garbage to 3world countries is a billion dollars industry, to be collected, not only, by the already rich shareholding companies, but also we, the tax paying citizens, who just wants to be as comfortable as possible.
Regardless of how our lifestyle affects others across the globe, as long as we can't see or feel it, we are comfortably numb.
Edit: when I started writing this, there was only the #1 post. I am so slow :-/
