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Comment on China just handed the world a 111-million-ton trash problem in ~enviro
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Comment on China just handed the world a 111-million-ton trash problem in ~enviro
lucasvb Link ParentI see it as a problem because it's off topic. It moves the discussion away from the topic in question to focus on the presentation of the topic. The topic goes largely ignored. Clickbaiting or...What is wrong with people discussing this?
I see it as a problem because it's off topic. It moves the discussion away from the topic in question to focus on the presentation of the topic. The topic goes largely ignored.
Clickbaiting or even journalist integrity should be their own discussions (and I'm not really saying those are not important). It's just that letting these dominate any post online makes discussion of the content itself secondary to the discussion of its medium.
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Comment on How do you read? in ~books
lucasvb LinkI've been reading books almost exclusively on my phone lately. It's not something extra to carry around and I almost always have it around with me, so I can read pretty much anytime. To avoid eye...I've been reading books almost exclusively on my phone lately. It's not something extra to carry around and I almost always have it around with me, so I can read pretty much anytime.
To avoid eye strain, I use a cream background with brown text during the day and black background with red text during the night, all with a large font size that barely fits two paragraphs. It works fine for me, and the larger text helps a lot with reading speed and pacing.
There's also the issue that I don't feel like collecting physical books is a good idea right now, as I don't really have a "permanent lifestyle" set up. I prefer to not have many belongings that I'll have to carry around or get rid of in the future.
That'd be the rational system. We should be adopting alternative materials as much as possible.
In the end, we still treat plastics as fundamentally disposable and a "free to use" material. Unless we force our industries to use plastic materials cyclically or as minimally as possible, the problem will only get worse. And it's not a problem that can be fixed quickly.
Some have suggested that all packaging should be traceable to the company who used it in the end, and that by law they should be responsible for collecting these and properly handling it.
But our civilization and economies do not allow for that completely reasonable demand. Our systems work based on treating trash as "other people's problems", so it's impossible to make the proper parties responsible. Too much needs to change.