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We repurpose, it is mote cost effective and efficient.

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It's admirable to want to reuse waste or in the least reduce waste and that's the notion behind recycling. The fact that recycling as it's currently practiced is not doing that or the fact that recycling could ever be sustainable even if practiced properly is another matter entirely. Just because recycling as it is practiced is an ineffective ruse doesn't mean man is not fouling its nest and it doesn't mean industrialized man doesn't lead a ridiculously wasteful lifestyle.

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Hey, when I was in primary school (sixties) in Poland, we brought paper for recycling to school. I remember there "nice, smooth paper" notebooks and

"brownish, not so smooth" ones. There were paper mills. Ray, you made me

remember that and I wanted to share.

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Recycling is all bs. But, now I see masks everywhere on the coast. That bothers me because there’s so much beautiful nature where I live. Leftists are hypocrites.

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Strangely enough, the technology exists to apply pressure to plastics and regain the oil they have been made from.

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Ray, I know you must be aware of this, but one must be careful when criticizing the hypocrisy of our system, that you don't let the wrong ones in or, in otherwords, you don't unconsciously or inadvertently provide succor to a certain select group of cretins who are disguised Christian Dominionists.

The fact of the matter is, the human species is despoiling this planet to such an extent, it will be altered for millions of years if not billions. It will be unlivable for most if not all species. Look at the nuclear waste debacle just for starters.

Already we are seeing global warming deniers making statements to your post. I've have always seen this as the problem with allowing global warming to stand in for man's environmental destruction of the planet. Global warming or climate change is just one dimension of the overall destruction by by allowing it to take center stage, it allows the ones who God is Progress to attack it and it alone and that's the end of the argument concerning man's destruction of the planet.

The Progress is God mentality believes humans have no ecological impact on the planet and even if man does, well, God will provide, or technology which is a religion in and of itself. The takeaway from that is, keep on trucking. Nothing to see here. Don't listen to the tree huggers. They're alarmists. Hail to Charles Koch. He is God's right hand man on Earth. Progress equals God. Let's continue with business as usual.

Yes, the Green New Deal is a corrupt farce. Guess who's behind it? That's right, Charles Koch and friends. Wall Street. Planet of the Humans exposed all of this and the Progress-Loving cretins also tried to usurp that to their polluting cause.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE

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Knew it was baloney. In the 70’s I was in elementary school. Global warming. All the predictions didn’t happen. As a kid I believed we would have hemp grocery bags, everything would be recycled glass, go back to wax paper. And we’d have solar everywhere & affordably . All we got was more plastic. And more lies. It’s a good way for select companies to launder money pretending to “ do good “.

Here in Florida, we just moved to a home with solar power. We are searching for homeowners insurance. Our last company is denying us coverage- it concideres the fact we sell our solar on metering to FP&L as a business & denying us coverage unless we get coverage as a home based business. I’m on disability and my husband is retired. There’s no business going on here! If we’re “ going green “ for Obama I mean Biden, shouldn’t we have financial incentives instead of penalties?

I used to be so proud of my country.

Now it feels like we actually never won WW2.

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Recycling was one thing I never bought into. I always seemed to be able to see it for BS. on this topic.

I wish I had recognized earlier the parallels it shares with other government sponsored corruption.

Thanks for another great read.

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