The Future of Garbage:
There are a number of strategies we can use to mitigate the problem of garbage. Some of these we already try to implement, but others are yet to be recognized as needed. Nonetheless, we will always have to contend with the inevitable entropy of every living being, in its community and ecosystem.
1. Reduce - no unnecessary packaging
- use natural, biodegradable materials
2. Repair - fix what breaks down
- replacement parts available
3. Redesign - plan for repairs & durability
- allow for upgrades & improvements
- use recoverable materials
- minimize mixing & contamination
4. Reconsider - don't include poisons
- chemicals leach into landfills
5. Reuse - repeated primary uses
- not single-use disposable
- design for cleaning & refurbishing
- expect a secondary application
6. Recover - reclaim all useful materials
- plan for disassembly
7. Recycle - make remains biodegradable
- can be composted for fertilizer
8. Renew - replenish natural sources
- fertilizer and replanting
9. Regulate - slow the pace of change
- no more planned obsolescence
- break-throughs, not gradualism
Does that come near enough to completing the cycle to allow for centuries without too much depletion of the resource base? This does not mean that society and technology will have to be stagnant, but change for its own sake might need some approval. We can possibly find more resources, but in time it may become more difficult.
"May Adonai bless you and protect you! May Adonai deal kindly and graciously with you! May Adonai lift up his countenance upon you and grant you peace!" (Torah, Numbers 6:24-26) And Jesus said, "Allow the little children to come unto me. Forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of God. Truly, I say unto you, unless you receive the Kingdom of God as a little child does, you shall not enter therein." (New Testament, Mark 10:14-16)
Sojourning at an Oasis Paradise
My purpose for living this life, and for writing this blog, is to understand the faith that links us to God. I wish to explore and discuss the reality at the heart of all of the world's religions. This is an immense task, but I know that God also has faith in us, trusting that we do desire the truth, as well as freedom, love and wisdom. Thus, as always, He meets us halfway. Even as God has given us individual souls, so we must each of us trace out an individual pathway to God. Whether we reside in the cities of orthodox religion, or wend our solitary ways through the barren wastelands, God watches over us and offers us guidance and sustenance for the journey.
Most of what you will see here is the result of extensive personal study, combined with some careful speculation. Occasionally, I may simply offer some Scripture or an inspirational text. I am a wide reader, and the connection of some topics and ideas to matters of faith and religion may not seem immediately obvious, but perhaps I may spell it out in the end... or maybe, you will decide that it was just a tangent. Anyway, I hope that you will find my meanderings to be spiritually enlightening, intellectually stimulating, or at least somewhat entertaining.
Most of what you will see here is the result of extensive personal study, combined with some careful speculation. Occasionally, I may simply offer some Scripture or an inspirational text. I am a wide reader, and the connection of some topics and ideas to matters of faith and religion may not seem immediately obvious, but perhaps I may spell it out in the end... or maybe, you will decide that it was just a tangent. Anyway, I hope that you will find my meanderings to be spiritually enlightening, intellectually stimulating, or at least somewhat entertaining.
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