Save the World — Stop Recycling
Anyway, thinking about it more, I have had a revelation. If we define our biggest environmental problem as CO2 production,shouldn’t we stop recycling of plastic and paper? In the first case, we are burying hydrocarbons unburned, putting the carbon back underground. Each bottle not recycled represent a few more hydrocarbon molecules that must be dedicated to plastics rather than fuel. In the case of paper, if we don’t recycle then we are using trees to sequester CO2 and bury it back in the ground as paper and cardboard. Once trees hit their maturity, their growth slows and therefore the rate they sequester CO2 slows. At this point, we need to be cutting more down, not less, and burying them in the ground, either as logs or paper or whatever. Just growing forests is not enough, because old trees fall over and rot and give up their carbon as CO2. We have to bury them. Right?
Just goes to show, I’m not the only one!
