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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 bertiebees at 25/01/2020 at 18:53 UTC
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You need to reassess what is it you "want"[1] and why you want it[2].
1: https://youtu.be/-cuM5CWYJuM
2: https://youtu.be/pMXwFlp9IoI
Most "well off societies" outsource their pollution[3].
You want a technological innovation (that's the secular prayer to science to absolve us someday tomorrow for the sins we refuse to stop committing today) for plastic bottles? Here's one. Make all the bottles soda is sold in, glass. Then take glass bottles back to the company you bought them from. The company can clean the bottles and reuse them in their production chain. That's a perfectly profitable business model that will cut down on one of the biggest environmental sources of pollution.
Comment by Dr_ManFattan at 25/01/2020 at 20:04 UTC
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"Our" system? I don't think so.
I navigate my life in a system designed by others.
Meanwhile people like the Koch brother spend their vast resources designing that system.
Like my buying the wrong brand of something doesn't compare to someone who owns 5+ houses texting senators to put loopholes in a tax code to except their chemical company from penalities for environment abuses.