While you're in the mood I've got a couple of grapefruit rinds filled with coffee grounds that might interest you as well.
Why do some of you obsess about tossing your trash in the trash? Not matter what you do with these chunks of plastic or anything else for that matter, recycle, heave them into the dumpster, send them to some third world hell-hole, you're not going to have any effect on anything. Absolutely none. Zero. Zip. Nada.You're not 'saving the planet' [which isn't and has never been in need saving] or whatever goody two-shoes thing you think that you're doing, rather you're acting like fools.
I've always thought you were well educated, but unless this is some form of advanced sarcasm, you've lost all credibility. Maybe it's all just vocabulary. I know you don't need my approval or even care about any one's opinion here, but your comment does warrant a response. With your depressive thought process we might as well let all of our primal instinct take over. What's the use of living like a civilized community if nothing we do affects the world?
So tell me, just how is this planet different in any substantial way from what it was in the past? I'm experiencing my 8th decade here on Urth and I see no noteworthy difference in any aspect of this planet over that time.
Do you have any actual evidence that supports your global warming/climate change/whatever position. This means real live evidence not projections generated via computerized modeling. Do you have a falsifiable hypothesis? A critical experiment than confirms your hypothesis? If so trot it out. If not, put a sock in it.
Climate has been changing since there's been climate. Do you pose that there is some climate state that is optimum? If you pose that the human race is somehow responsible for whatever change might be occurring then it's incumbent upon you to demonstrate what the climate would be if there were no human race? For extra credit then demonstrate that whichever way the climate might be moving is bad.
Until you demonstrate these things you have nothing. Put up or shut up.
Ok, it's not sarcasm. So since this was originally talking about global waste; it's undeniable that we produce a lot of it. Believe it or not, your life isn't even a spec on Earth's radar. However, just like water carves a path, all our combined, short lives, have an effect on this planet. You're old enough that you might remember such things as people dying from smog poisoning and acid rain. Products of human's industrial revolution. While tens of thousands are small in the eyes of our population, they were deaths that didn't have to happen. Had regulations and the general attitude not changed, it's hard to deny that those things would still be relevant. People dying as the result of our waste. People having a negative affect on their climate. So while throwing plastic tube ends into a landfill may not be an issue today, why leave it to be a problem of the future when we can do something about it now? Whether it helps one family in a third world country, or gets turned into ink cartridges, or maybe even a life saving clip for a tourniquet, it's all better than sitting in a rotting landfill.
I personally don't believe the climate change is as big an issues as it's made to seem. I couldn't care less if we have an ice age or California gets lost in the ocean. Even if we lost a bit of coastal line in Texas. I think the Earth is due for a big shake up anyway. However, as much as I don't care, the reasoning for projections is because here on Earth, things happen in centuries and millenniums. We've hardly begun collecting data on our Earth. Just from the short time that we have, there is already concern. Concern doesn't mean they are right. Should we just ignore them? No. We're not talking throwing moth balls in the gas tank. We're talking about changing small things that will have positive effects. What good does it have for the world if we continue to burn stuff? Nothing. What bad will come of switching to sustainable energy? Nothing, except maybe a few birds die. Now, I'm not going to go out and buy an electric car because the technology is too pricey. My exhaust pollutants have such a minuscule effect, but my trash last decades if not centuries. I will gladly recycle plastic, cardboard, paper, and glass because it's easy enough. If you could, for a moment, think beyond your tiny world, people will continue to live in your waste. Do them a small favor and clean up after yourself. So it's not so much about saving the planet, as it will survive with our without us. It's about saving our future from us.
