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Guys guys it's population! Definitely nothing to do with the waste products from how we source all our energy. But <nebulous authority> won't let us solve the population problem so I guess there's nothing to be done and thus no responsibility to do anything!

This line of thinking is morally abhorrent at best.



It might come as a surprise to you, but waste generated by humans and human population is intrinsically linked.


Why? We can in fact transition to perfectly renewable stuff for about 99% of what we currently put in landfills.

Of course currently a lot of the externalities are not priced into products. Most important of them all is GHG emissions.


All else equal, waste is linearly proportional to population.

Not all is equal, but in the near future, many more people will transition into more wasteful lifestyle than people switching to less wasteful lifestyle.




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