[Eco] Re: Recycling and P&T's Bullshit

[Jonathan Grabert]

Okay, let's forget about thousands of years.  I'll concede to hundreds. 
(Though I've no doubt that there will still be plenty of oil in 4007, it 
just won't be used then.)  But the point is that we're nowhere close to 
running out, thereby making invalid the argument that we need to recycle 
plastic due to dwindling oil.  Also invalid is the need to recycle because 
new paper production accelerates the use of fossil fuels (an argument I'm 
not ready to accept anyway).

J/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <madlab.rabbit.krishaven at spamgourmet.com>
To: <eco at lists.looneylabs.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:12 PM
Subject: [Eco] Re: Recycling and P&T's Bullshit


> This one time, at band camp, "Daniel Brashler" <dannob at brashler.net> 
> wrote:
>>
>>> 3. The oil too is going away -- it's a finite resource as well.
>> Again, we are in absolutely no danger of running out of oil for thousands 
>> of
>> years.  Even if that weren't the case, there *will* be a better fuel 
>> source
>> developed well before we'd run out.  (Solar, anyone?)  There is no oil
>> crisis due to the earth's supply.
>
> Uh, while Peak Oil's proponents have done the world a disservice with
> their immanent apocalypse scenarios, oil will not last thousands of
> years if we continue to use it at anything near the present rate.  And
> if we continue to ignore this fact and under-develop alternatives then
> we won't be prepared when supplies really do drop off.
>
> Having said that, I don't intend to get too worried until the $2 shops
> and Red Dot stores run out of plastic crap to sell.
>
> C(K)J.
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