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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (10149)	3/3/2007 6:25:25 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

Rousseau, had no idea what he was about. He said people are innately good. He is epitomized by the concept of the "Noble Savage." Man is nature is good, and becomes evil when civilized. He is the ideological leader of the "back to nature" concept. You and I put up with it in NZ and Hawaii with all the fawning over our local Polynesians. The "blood and soil" [Blut und Boden] movement in Germany under Hitler was based in part on him, IMO. I have never met a Socialist/Environmentalist who didn't like Rousseau.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (10149)	3/4/2007 7:29:30 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

"It should all be taken to a nice, clean, safe, economic sorting warehouse, where ALL of the stuff could be recycled, instead of just some." It's done that way in Calif, at least in all the places I am aware of. Mandatory recycling, deposit on containers.I think bottled water is included, but juices aren't. Down in civilization, there is curbside pick up of the recyclables, including newspapers and green waste, by the garbage companies. Up here, there are places around. One in town just by the post office (where everybody goes, cuz we don't have delivery), one at the dump transfer station. I take my bottles and aluminum there when I go to the dump; about 3 times a year, cuz I don't generate a lot of garbage. There's a dumpster at work for recycling; I throw in the tin cans and non-deposit glass jars and plastic.