The Fallacy of Recycling and Any Such
Similar Activities.
In fact, there is something good
about recycling and any such similar activities--they buy a
little time for us, they soften the deadly assault that we,
humans are leading against our home, the Earth, thus
postponing the Judgment Day, but those benign activities
will never stop, ever revert the environmental degradation.
Recycling, buying organically grown, buying used and
refurbished goods, etc. would be a good thing to do, if we
used the time thus bought to figure out how to really stop
the environmental degradation, and how to start healing the
damage done already. The statistics show that the damage to
our Earth ecosystem keeps on accumulating with consequences
that we are afraid to estimate, and that recycling and such
similar activities hardly effect the mounting degradation at
all. Who today would remember that recycling, eating
organically grown food, and such were originally supposed to
save the Earth - however unlikely this would seem today to
expect of those activities?
The original purpose of
recycling got forgotten on the way from the days when
recycling (and other good things to do) was initiated on a
large scale in the sixties and the seventies. Recycling then
was to be only a temporary measure that was to be employed
only till no recycling would be necessary - till the
day when people would live in a benign balance with all
other life and themselves, when no waste (to be recycled or
otherwise to be disposed of) would be generated at all, when
- if one would need to wrap anything for the purposes, say,
of transportation, the wrapping itself would be useful for
something in one's household upon arrival, etc. This
idea of eventually achieving a balance between humans and
the rest of the Universe got forgotten and receded into some
realms of the consciousness where things that, even though
aesthetically pleasing, get shelved away if there is no
profit to be made on them.
The discipline of recycling is still being religiously pursued,
but as in the case of religions, a dogma replaced an originally
beautiful idea, because the idea had no place in the
pathological pursuit of one's happiness at the expense of
others - the leitmotif of our currently prevalent paradigm. It
is obvious that recycling exercised by the many today will not
result in the creation of a Paradise-on-Earth, and even the
majority of the most intelligent from amongst us (to be found
on the campuses of our Universities :-), does not believe in it
(it is not intelligent to blindly accept a dogma, no matter how
holy the dogma might seem to be), as evidenced by the amount of
recyclables that can be found in the trash cans on the campuses
at any time.
Eating organically grown food followed a fate similar to that
of recycling, with the only difference that while recycling did
not prove itself to be much profitable, organically grown food
became a gold mine, and mostly only the wealthy can pay for
organically grown food these days. Thus the Earth will not be
saved from the chemical industry by consuming organically
(without chemical aid) grown food - the chemical industry is
doing better today than ever, because the masses are too busy
to make a living to worry about the fate of the Earth--they eat
the cheaper, chemically subsidized food in increasing
quantities.
What is needed is to resurrect the vision of the Earth as a
potential Paradise, and only then, with this idea firmly
planted in front of us, our politically correct, dogmatic
ecological activities can regain a vital meaning. Our mindless
activities of recycling, indulging in the esoteric consumption
of organic food, car bashing, and such will re-gain their
rightful meaning; pursuit of those activities (along with a
number of other good things to do) shall then result in the
Earth becoming the most optimal home for humans and all other
living things. All that is needed for the realization of this
ideal is available. There is no excuse.
Thank you - Hearthstone.
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