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The evil that is trying to remain untouched is the entire reason the ridiculous premise of polluting other worlds even exists. The modern evil of unsustainable, wasteful, unnecessary, and unsatisfying consumer products that generate massive waste(and massive profits for a select minority of already wealthy people) remains safely unchallenged in that premise. While the rabble argue over the merits of theoretical nonsense. Existing concentrations of private wealth and power can sit comfortably knowing their system of unnecessary garbage production remains unchallenged. While we ineffectually argue amongst ourselves how best to clean up their mess in a way that doesn't bother, impact, or require any change on their part.
Comment by Provokateur at 25/01/2020 at 18:51 UTC
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More importantly, I'm sure there are dumb people on a random subreddit who made OP's claims, but this is the actually reason many environmentalist oppose the idea of merely sending out trash into space. It preserves the system that over-consumes and over-produces to make all that trash and which has many problems that remain even if we could wish the trash out of existence.
Comment by nslinkns24 at 25/01/2020 at 18:36 UTC
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Existing concentrations of private wealth and power can sit comfortably knowing their system of unnecessary garbage production remains unchallenged.
1. "Their system" is our system. We want things, and that provides an incentive for people to make them.
2. We should be focusing on technolgical innovations to reduce polluation, not limiting consumption. The most well-off societies generally pollute the least.
Comment by [deleted] at 26/01/2020 at 14:27 UTC
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
If you wrote this post on your own personal device, you're part of the problem. You realize that, right?