Quote:
Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
All the same, if change is going to happen in 50 years, it needs to start now.
|
It started a long time ago, petrol cars are 1000's of time cleaner than they were in the 50's. Power plants are much more efficient, we know how to build much better nuclear stations. Quite a few highly dangerous and destructive chemicals have been banned.
Population growth has largely negated the gains, and developing nations don't have the luxury of being green. Plus as a society we have become incredibly wasteful and base our lifestyle in large part to buying crap, needed or not. Industry for the most part doesn't give a second thought to producing goods with a life cycle in mind it's made to be used and tossed. Slap a recycle logo on it call it day, who cares if it actually gets recycled or how difficult it is to recycle assuming it happens.
In defense of the auto industry they are quite good at recycling most of the vehicle is reused in some way, the difficult stuff is rubber, electronics and plastic.