"The revolting world of middle class prejudice"

[Trystan]

This is a really good article from spiked: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5759/

Discuss?

[PRC-UTE]

pretty good. easy target, though! establishment hippies :laugh:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

A most entertaining article. The important thing to remember is that as fake and tiresome as the new environmentalist movement is, there are still genuine environmental concerns which must be addressed.


'Are you desperate to right a wrong?’ asks the blurb on the back cover of Rebel, Rebel. And in almost every instance throughout the book, the ‘wrong’ that apparently needs to be righted is the unthinking behaviour and poor choices of ill-informed plebs or those tacky ‘new money’ types. So after Vallely was met by hoots of derision from time-stretched mothers who refused to give up disposable nappies - which, after all, were invented precisely to make mums’ lives easier - she condescendingly writes, ‘They didn’t seem to understand how privileged they are’, as if she was talking about a bunch of spoilt five-year-olds.

In this instance, asking mothers to increase their workload with non-disposable nappies is clearly unacceptable. But the mountains of disposable nappies add to our landfills. In this case, lateral thinking is needed. How about disposable nappies that are biodegradable, and which are processed along with other organic waste to produce fertiliser and biogas (methane)?

Perhaps there are other solutions. But what is clear, if nothing else, is that the environmental movement of late has suffered a critical failure of the imagination - or perhaps has developed a phobia of science and engineering-based solutions. Or both.

[Sendo]

In this instance, asking mothers to increase their workload with non-disposable nappies is clearly unacceptable. But the mountains of disposable nappies add to our landfills. In this case, lateral thinking is needed. How about disposable nappies that are biodegradable, and which are processed along with other organic waste to produce fertiliser and biogas (methane)?



I've wondered why we haven't done that yet. You'd think capitalist could market biodegradable diapers and have private, but for free landfills, from which they could harvest and "stockpile" methane.

Probably because oil was cheap for so long. Ideas?

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I've wondered why we haven't done that yet. You'd think capitalist could market biodegradable diapers and have private, but for free landfills, from which they could harvest and "stockpile" methane.

Probably because oil was cheap for so long. Ideas?

That's the most likely reason. But now that oil prices are increasing sharply (don't worry about the recent decrease, they'll keep rising), solutions like the one I mentioned should become more attractive financially speaking. I say should because capitalists are not always rational, and many have managed to find ways of not facing the reality that oil is becoming increasingly harder to find.