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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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A Boring Dystopia
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Article makes a good point:
We focus on half the problem, the half we burn considerable fossil fuels to move the plastic waste just so it can be burnt somewhere else.
No one is really doing enough.
It's just when you set metrics and only care about meeting those metrics, you often lose sight of the goal.
This society is really going to have to destroy itself to stop, isn't it? I didn't even think about that. How we're shipping waste all around the world, shipping half built parts overseas and back just because its cheaper to put two bits together in another country. I'm pretty sure the plan at this point is everyone without a bunker dies.
Parable of the sower by Octavia Butler is what I imagine