RE: If The Government Really Cared About The Environment, They'd Do This
The govern-cements are "secretly" out to destroy the environment.
The straw ban is soooo shtuuuupid...
You take a tiny bit of plastic and a tiny bit of energy to create a handy and disposable implement.
To make them out of paper takes a lot more energy, a lot more resources, and isn't as good or hygenic.
Instead, all municipalities should have two stage, high temperature furnaces for turning all the trash into heat energy which will be used to create electric power. It has been proven effective and efficient and very clean with the two stage burn. But, do you hear of any in The US? No. Because the trash division cannot talk to the electric division.
Loans for houses is shtupid.
Loans for colleges is shtupidder.
However, learning to build an earth ship is great experience.
Unfortunately, getting permits for one is often a pain, as no one wants to take responsibility for this new fangled building.
In the future, heating a home with oil will be more expensive than building an earthship.
We are about to see a huge section of suburbia become wasteland. Where people will go from house to house removing anything of value. (mostly metals)
I live in Oregon, and you might be interested to know that Marion County in Oregon, USA, has an Energy from Waste facility that has been in operation since 1987. The facility processes 550 tons per day of municipal solid waste, which generates up to 13.1 megawatts of renewable energy. I believe there are about 75 such facilities in the USA. It's not much, but it's a start. You might like to check out these sights:
www.Covanta.com/Our-Facilities/Covanta-Marion ----- as well as:
www.oregonmetro.gov/news/powering-homes-garbage
And, yes, we need to do much more of this in the USA.
Yes, i know of them. I also know of many that were never built... because the trash people couldn't talk to the power people... grrrrr.
There was one set to go on-line, but the investors wanted to patent it, but the inventor wouldn't do it, saying it is for the good of humanity. The investors dumped the project.
But really, we should be burning all the plastic rubbish. Trucking the shit back to the plant for recycling wastes more oil than making them anew.
(unless you recycle locally, which is totally possible.)
Thanks for the links. I hope all the cities get their own.
I agree!!
There is a solution - there are many solutions - but the government will not recognize them because they don't satisfy the special interests that policy makers made to get the support/money to get elected. This whole idea is hypothetical. In reality, people will just have to do this on their own and wait for the government to collapse.