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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17480 on: 25/02/2021 12:22:39 »
It's all based on the game. It's a game about profits. Recycling doesn't create profits.
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« Reply #17481 on: 25/02/2021 12:23:49 »
The game is also based on inequality. And the result of inequality becomes its geopolitics.
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« Reply #17482 on: 25/02/2021 12:25:44 »
In a game of sustainability recycling would be defined as 'profitable'. But that's a different game.
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« Reply #17483 on: 25/02/2021 12:30:16 »
The game you play is sacred. Anything falling out of its definitions of a individual and corporate definition of profits will be left to your tax money. That's how it works. From the many to the few. And with your politicians calling it progress. Making your environment better.
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« Reply #17484 on: 25/02/2021 12:34:19 »
https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-these-six-metals-are-key-to-a-low-carbon-future
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« Reply #17485 on: 25/02/2021 12:47:08 »
What you call different politics, ideals and ideologies, I call the game. There is no ideology outside this game we play.
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« Reply #17486 on: 25/02/2021 12:48:43 »
It's just a question of your degrees of freedom inside it. Do you understand that?
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« Reply #17487 on: 25/02/2021 12:50:44 »
Humanity's sacred bubble of logic. The one driving you to extinction.
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« Reply #17488 on: 25/02/2021 13:13:00 »
Add to it our hierarchal structures. The way we redefine ourselves by climbing a 'ladder'. The way we think it makes us smarter, more knowledgeable, better equipped to take decisions for others. We all have it in us of course, no matter if we climb or not, but your decisions becomes more far reaching the higher you are on that ladder. And with it your hubris.
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« Reply #17489 on: 25/02/2021 13:15:25 »
Its expressions may differ, depending on traditions, religions, beliefs and ideals. It all falls under the same game though.
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« Reply #17490 on: 25/02/2021 13:16:28 »
And its base is you. Your greed, your ignorance, your hubris and your beliefs.
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« Reply #17491 on: 25/02/2021 13:23:16 »
There are several reasons why I think a flat platform will change it. What I call a 'real democracy'.

One is chaos theory, another statistics, a third the question of 'rights', a fourth making you responsible, a fifth avoiding blame games, a sixth equality. Probably more than that, but it's what comes to mind for the moment.
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« Reply #17492 on: 25/02/2021 13:25:49 »
In the end it's a question of education and knowledge, of ideals and beliefs. I think it will make it better, I also think it will be a stepping stone.
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« Reply #17493 on: 25/02/2021 13:32:00 »
Well, yes.

I forgot the most important.
To avoid a extinction.
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« Reply #17494 on: 25/02/2021 13:47:26 »
The game works this way. The less assets you have the more profitable they become. So somewhere in the future we will find it profitable to recycle. You are the ones that will pay for it though, not your industries or any individuals opening their wallet. Although they may come up with ingenious schemes and devices for it, based on the profits they expect to reap from helping themselves and us. It's a game of inequality, to its very end. That end will be when your assets more or less are gone and your resources for recycling costs you more that you can afford.
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« Reply #17495 on: 25/02/2021 13:50:27 »
It will leave 'enclaves' surviving while the majority starves.It doesn't mean that those enclaves will survive though. You might think there is a chance but with global warming and a major tipping the probability of it will be very low as I see it.
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« Reply #17496 on: 25/02/2021 13:53:51 »
It will guarantee the loss of civilization, the loss of eco and biodiversity. No bunker will stop it, neither any wars, or war.
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« Reply #17497 on: 25/02/2021 13:55:52 »
Get yourself a democracy, today.
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« Reply #17498 on: 25/02/2021 14:06:17 »
Can you see it?

How your game constantly shrinks for you?
How it change its definitions of what is profitable depending on it?

And what it leads to?

Your bubble of logic's
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« Reply #17499 on: 25/02/2021 14:21:38 »
I'm not happy about it, I wish I could change it. That's why I write about it. Hoping that you can change.

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/life-without-bees-hand-human-pollination-rural-chi/
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