Yeah, I think people today have a major anti-trashing bias. Manufacturing and distribution have gotten so good and cheap that we should all be anti-hoarders trashing lots of stuff, then ordering new stuff as needed.
Maybe I’m ill adjusted to the modern world, or maybe I’m one of the few who sees Moloch’s footprints here, but the fact that a tree is cut, processed, printed on, read for ten minutes and thrown away where it will rot and emit chemical substances into the soil annoys me in a big way.
it’s consumption. Does it annoy you that a lot of money, time, and effort is spent on a big fancy dinner and then it just turns into poop? Which also emits chemical substances including the notorious dihydrogen monoxide...
Does it annoy you that a lot of money, time, and effort is spent on a big fancy dinner and then it just turns into poop?
In that case, there’s less waste because your body extract whatever calories it can with an added bonus of pleasure. But yes!, it annoys me that calories are seen as a major social lubricant, as much as it does annoy me all the Mton of food wasted by grocery stores each day all around the world!
May I suggest it would be beneficial to yourself to change that attitude? The world is certainly not going to change and spending your life annoyed at the reality seems… wasteful.
Yeah, I think people today have a major anti-trashing bias. Manufacturing and distribution have gotten so good and cheap that we should all be anti-hoarders trashing lots of stuff, then ordering new stuff as needed.
Maybe I’m ill adjusted to the modern world, or maybe I’m one of the few who sees Moloch’s footprints here, but the fact that a tree is cut, processed, printed on, read for ten minutes and thrown away where it will rot and emit chemical substances into the soil annoys me in a big way.
it’s consumption. Does it annoy you that a lot of money, time, and effort is spent on a big fancy dinner and then it just turns into poop? Which also emits chemical substances including the notorious dihydrogen monoxide...
That doesn’t make it right or even tolerable.
In that case, there’s less waste because your body extract whatever calories it can with an added bonus of pleasure.
But yes!, it annoys me that calories are seen as a major social lubricant, as much as it does annoy me all the Mton of food wasted by grocery stores each day all around the world!
Better that there be too much food than too little!
Sure, but at the moment there isn’t too much food, there is too much food here.
It sounds like you are annoyed with the world.
May I suggest it would be beneficial to yourself to change that attitude? The world is certainly not going to change and spending your life annoyed at the reality seems… wasteful.
We’ll see about that...
You might need to take some fiber supplements...
And that will reduce the dihydrogen monoxide emissions..? I think you’re confused about what fiber does :-P