Wheelhouse

The Truth About Recycling, an articled published by The Economist, the conservative business journal from Great Britain, on june 9th, 2007 concluded with “If done right, there is no doubt that recycling saves energy and raw materials, and reduces pollution. . . In the end, says Ms.Krebs, “waste is really a design flaw.”

Like the Climate Change debate, critics had been able to delay implementation of comprehensive recycling by putting out misleading information for years about how recycling doesn’t really work and may even be bad. The height of this ruse may have been when libertarians Penn and Teller took on the cause of trying to discredit recycling efforts in their show Penn & Teller: Bullshit!.

Seem it is time to stop the bullshit and get on with recycling that works.

I got lost in the empire for a bit. Living in the belly of the beast can be distracting if you pay too close attention to the horror show. Although, The Grand Traverse Bay Area is in a well insulated part of the empire’s belly. Gosh you’d hardly know there was a war in Iraq, global climate change, resource depletion, between one and two billion people (out of 6.5 billion) living on Earth in unbelievable poverty, no health insurance for 50+ million Americans and an industrial food system destroying the earth to produce toxic food.

The good news is . . . I’ll get back to you on that one. Any thoughts?