Thank you for the prize. I appreciate it very much.
Here is one for this week, maybe something that concerns everyone: https://steemit.com/obsoleteness/@irastra/obsoleteness-vi-plastic
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Thank you for the prize. I appreciate it very much.
Here is one for this week, maybe something that concerns everyone: https://steemit.com/obsoleteness/@irastra/obsoleteness-vi-plastic
I found your article interesting, especially about the different ways in which humans have messed themselves up in the past by using products they didn't understand the long term risks off. Maybe it will turn out to be the same with plastics! There is too much plastic products in the world for sure @irastra. I can't remember the last time I didn't return from a dive without my BCD jackets full of plastic bits and bobs. It's really disheartening when your drifting peacefully with the current and see a beautiful green turtle eating what you think is a jelly fish, only to discover as you get closer that it's a plastic bag! It's enough to make me cry sometimes. I've literally helped pull a plastic bag out of a turtles throat when in Mexico helping out with the breeding conservation groups. Poor thing was retching away for hours :(
Thanks for your answer. It seems that we, humans, have a similar problem, as there are tiny pieces of plastic in the drinking water, and in animals that live in the seas and oceans, so if we eat them then we eat the degraded plastic that is in them. Only they are too small for us to see.
Say no to plastic!
This could come close to mission impossible. If anyone of us, unless living in the jungle and dressing in the rawhide, takes a look around, anyone can see lots of items made out of plastic. Maybe we can use less of it, but I doubt we can get rid of it entirely just so easily.
No plastic is the way of the future. There is no future in plastic, at least how we know it now. Recognizing the toxicity of plastic is step one. Recognizing that a future without plastic can exist is step two.
I agree there is no future in plastic, but will the new materials be less toxic and more quickly degradable with less toxic impact? For instance, my spectacles are full plastic and without them I can not read, should I stop reading then? And spectacles are not produced any other way? Or, anyone using make-up produces quite some amount of plastic waste. Or, let's see matrasses - just how many are they made out of something else than plastic foam? Toothbrush? Just how many things can anyone replace with some natural material that one can afford? And so on.
I understand your point. I use plastic too.
What I teach my children is that before they can live a reality, they have to be able to imagine it.
Are there other solutions to your glasses, toothbrushes and mattresses? Yes. Are they affordable? Not for most people.
We can simultaneously use what is available to us in the now, and imagine-think-suggest on improvements. The only way to improve is to know we can.
So yes. I use plastic. Yes, I know there are better solutions. Yes, I aim for those better solutions.
It took many years for plastic to become the problem it is today, it will take even more years to find the solution. But we will only find it if we realize there is a solution to be had.
And yes. I hope that the solution is less toxic. If the solution is more toxic than it is not a solution at all.
Something most of us know but don’t think enough about. I don’t really buy too many things, in part because I think consumerism is an addiction as harmful as coffee or cigarettes, but also because it hurts the planet. Not only plastic bags, but also the products you put inside them will usually become garbage. Where are all those iPhone 2’s now? I buy a new phone or computer only when my old one becomes difficult to use.
I commented on your actual post.
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So I can't reply hto you here, because it makes not sense.
Haha and ooops!
Here it is copied and pasted ~ not that extraordinary as comments go :)
Found this post via @whatamidoing deadpost initiative.
Suddenly people are talking about this and pondering change.
About bloody time eh!
Man is a foolish animal.
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Succinct and informative post ~ thanks.
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Yes, we usually find out what we did to others and consequently to ourselves way too late, when the damage is practically irreparable.