Non-Elitist Review of Life: Littering.

I love nature, not to submit to my secret heritage as a Red Mage, but more because I love being in it. The smell of the trees, the fresh smell of snow runoff, and the sound of birds in the air. I live in the city, but since it's Colorado, my city is just a tiny suburb right next to OH MY GAWD, IS THAT FUCKING NATURE?!? Yes, I am just a mole on the otherwise mountainous terrain. What I'm getting at is that me and nature are still buddies.

Like most pals, we have a love hate relationship. I visit him whenever I can, and I'm aloud to litter all I like. Oh but not aluminum. Fuck that, if nature sees me litter a can, he'll make me go back and pick up every single bottle I've left in an inconspicuous location. 'Aluminum is expensive,' he says, looking down on me. 'You think this shit grows on trees!' Which I never quite understood why people are so adamant about recycling paper. It quite literally grows on trees, and if we left nature alone it would do the exact same thing as decomposing paper, so why soak it in a chemical bath, so that you can make it into cheap random supplies? I'd say that leaving a tree byproduct left in the way for another tree to take root is just life making its course.

But back to the point, littering. It's become a part of my life. If there's not a trash can near (because I do still like the place orderly) I throw that plastic willy-nillie. Paper also, but I think I've made my point about that. I think of it like this, "Hey nature, would you rather me burn this bottle and pollute the air? Or me throw it on the ground, as opposed to some guy I pay, comes and drags it to a big fuck off hole, and burries it. What do you think?"

"Well, gee, I guess when you put it that way, I'd choose two," and I couldn't agree more nature, and that's because neither of us is looking forward to death or taxes.

So why not throw it just any old place? Well because, nature still doesn't like it. Plastic rings are great for keeping your soda together, but that shit is hard for animals to break apart, and unless every animal is suddenly turned into a goat, the sparkly bags and small plastics aren't going to wreak havoc on their insides. So A) Only litter in a place that you know gets cleaned anyway, and even then, only if you know it's not a hassle. Janitors keep this place clean people, come on, work with them. And B) throwing out of a car is fun, but be cautious of those around you. Your sandwich wrapper is their giant tarp of Blindness. Plus, and I've picked up someone's trash that wasn't mine, in my front lawn before, so I keep littering in neighborhoods to a minimum.

So yeah, recyclings great when you're recycling aluminum. Seriously, when we lose that, we lose that for good. But when the choice is recycle and pollute or throw away and let rot, I'd choose rot. Sure, it'll never be gone in our lifetime, but it still will. This isn't nuclear waste, it will disappear over time. Everything will happen if you wait long enough.

So long, and have a happy lobotomy,
-Eliot Wolf

Rant #14: REcycling

Okay I have to admit, this isn't exactly a rant as much as it is a statement of facts. I used rant because I'm trying to make a brand name here.

So most of us recycle, either we feel good doing it, or we feel some sort of obligation to the world. Either way, it's something we do, but it really isn't that great. They say it saves resources, it saves energy, and it saves the planet.

For one, it doesn't save materials. We have 20% more trees on the earth now, than we did 90 years ago. That's because of tree farms, plantations specifically made for the production of paper. It really doesn't save any trees.

Another argument is that is saves energy. Again, it doesn't. It actually takes more energy to process plastic, than it does to just make a new one. Some of it even comes from the transport. It takes one truck to take the recyclables to another truck, that takes it to a crossroad that gives it to another truck. That is a lot of CO2 heading into the atmosphere. A lot of wasted energy.

Now the thing about it saving the earth was actually a lie spread in the educational pamphlet "An Agenda for Action," which was basically the archaic origin to Al Gore's PowerPoint. It said that America's landfills were filling up and dumping toxins into the ground. The fact is, landfills are surprisingly clean and most are converted into thriving parks, and recreational areas, once they're filled. They also are not filling up, no matter what anyone says. Even if we were to take 1000 years of garbage (220 tons a year), we would only have enough to cover 35 square miles, 200 feet high, with garbage. That, on the whole, is a small number.

Also, recycling causes more stress on the enviroment due to all the manufacturing reproduction of certain objects. In fact the only thing that is even worth recycling is soda cans, and that's because aluminum is actually a pretty expensive metal.

I'm not saying stop recycling, but still know your facts, and I know I'm missing stuff but if you're really interested enough to nag me do some research for yourself. You'll be surprised what you find.

So, anyway readers, I want to wish you a so long, and have a happy lobotomy.

-Eliot Wolf




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