Solution To Pollution

[Lightkeeper]

What is the solution to pollution? How can we manufacture what we need without polluting? How can we explore space without leaving junk in it? Is the only answer to get back to the basics and just live off the land with no toys?

 

[Druidus]

Why don't we launch all of our garbage into the sun? Wouldn't it actually help our sun live a couple of nanoseconds longer?

 

[Jaymes]

Heh, I've always thought the same thing, Druidus. But think of the fuel it would take to get it there... I say we dump it in a volcano.

 

[fromthe heart]

Heh, I've always thought the same thing, Druidus. But think of the fuel it would take to get it there... I say we dump it in a volcano.

and if it erupted? back it would come in a new form right?

 

[Jaymes]

Er... not really. I was thinking smoke would have to be worried about more than it 'coming back,' since it had already been burninated.

 

[jewscout]

Here's something that can not only help with pollution but also in the war on terror...unless you live in like minesotta where it snows alot...YOU DON'T NEED A FIGIN SUV!!!

 

[No*s]

Here's something that can not only help with pollution but also in the war on terror...unless you live in like minesotta where it snows alot...YOU DON'T NEED A FIGIN SUV!!!

Congrats Jewscout, that's the best solution on here. Live relatively simply, and you produce less garbage.

On the other suggestions, I doubt that we would really want to jettison our garbage. After all, there may actually be a use for it some time, and that garbage is a processed part of our planet. It's bad enough that we're depleting it, we don't need to remove the resources permanently. We should learn to recycle them.

 

[Jaymes]

Ugh, exactly, Jewscout. Every time I go to pick my sister up from school I see a frickin HUGE SUV with a tag that says '4MYBOYS.' Grr... if she wanted to do something '4 her boys,' she could get something that uses less gas.

Aannd for the record, I was joking about the toss them into the volcano thing.

 

[No*s]

Ugh, exactly, Jewscout. Every time I go to pick my sister up from school I see a frickin HUGE SUV with a tag that says '4MYBOYS.' Grr... if she wanted to do something '4 her boys,' she could get something that uses less gas.

Aannd for the record, I was joking about the toss them into the volcano thing.

OK. This site seems to hide the smiley faces from me (I can't see any images at all on this browser), and so if you had them I missed the clue. I would turn such visual cues into plain ascii if I could.

 

[painted wolf]

yeah, burnination is good for villages and pesants (go trogdar) but not for all types of trash. Paper and the like can be burned well, plastics and thier ilk not so good.
There are renewable sources of energy avalable for home use.
Sun, wind and water are a good start, most homes should run on a combo for best effect.

check out: http://www.homepower.com/index.cfm
http://www.backwoodssolar.com/

wa:do

 

[retrorich]

Was it Reagan who claimed that trees caused pollution? :biglaugh:

 

[Pah]

Taking a clue from the abstinence moverment in sex, pollution wouldn't be a problem if you just didn't breath.

Bob