Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
I’m writing this on a US Airways flight, kicking off my trip to interview Dr. Raj Pachauri. Everything’s running right on time so far.
To their credit, the airline has an active recycling program. But might they be overzealous? For the third time on this flight, they’ve come by to try to recycle the plastic cup I’m keeping to drink water. In another hour, they’ll be coming back through offering more water – and more cups to replace the ones they recycled an hour ago.
This, by the way, is why the adage: “Reduce, re-use, recycle” is in that particular order. If you can not use something at all, that’s best. If you have to use it, try to re-use it. If you cannot do either, recycle.
It would seem to make more sense to encourage passengers to keep their cups, reuse them, and give them up for recycling only near the end of the flight.
Ah, Logic – so rare…
What they’re doing only makes sense by the twisted ‘body count’ logic of the Vietnam War (and of our present policy of declaring as legitimate military targets all human drone victims until they are proven otherwise after death).
Perhaps the airline is actually attempting to show the success of its recycling program on the basis of the total number of cups recycled, rather than on any true measure of success with regard to a total end-to-end holistic accounting.
This brand of “reasoning” sounds very familiar. It’s the reason oil and coal look cheap. Not all the true costs are accounted for at the pump and the meter. If they were, we’d already be wisely running everything on clean modern sunlight instead of that filthy ancient stuff we’re still rabidly digging up.
How do we get a true accounting and move forward wisely?
Stop the bribery that protects the lies and the liars.
We are withering as a people, as a nation, and as a biosphere, under the sad sock-puppet show in all our statehouses and in Congress – we need our leadership to be held accountable to us, not to their bribing paymasters.
Everything goes back to the buck, folks. We’ve let it rule us, and it’s making the rules.
You’ve heard that this is “The Land of the Free Because of the Brave” – that’s partly true, but it’s far more true to say, “The Land of the Free Because of the Brave REBELS.”
Stand up, speak out, and DO something!
Truth – Non-Violence – Cooperation – Direct Action – Perseverance