+1 agreed, rockabye.
In fact, the take the topic in a broader sense, the future of the planet depends on the elimination of ALL waste, period. I.E. NO waste water or effluent, NO landfill waste, NO atmospheric waste, exhaust, etc.
All solids, liquids and gases that result from human activity have to be recycled into the environment in a non-detrimental way. All the natural resources life depends on are finite and non-renewable although they may be recyclable. Any consumption that takes resources out of the natural recycling system implies depletion. Any depletion is NOT sustainable by definition - refer to basic mathematics.
The only external input to the environmental system on earth is energy from the sun. The addition of energy to the system is essentially in equilibrium to energy being dissipated or lost to space. This balance has set up the critical conditions that allow all of the ecological systems on the planet to naturally recycle resources in an essentially habitable and sustainable way, although it has vacillated over history and has not always been habitable for species such as mankind.
We have now irreversibly changed the balance of the system and it is not naturally sustainable anymore, hence our current climate crisis. We have added so much energy to the weather system, it is spinning out of control. Man’s vanity that technology can overcome nature is about to revealed up as one of the biggest fallacies of all time.
Posted Wednesday 24 Oct 2012 @ 11:15:50 pm from IP
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