On 2/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Penn & Teller, might not be experts, but here is an interesting article to > read > http://www.williams.edu/HistSci/curriculum/101/garbage.html
The one comment I'll make on recycling in this forum is that many of the analyses I've seen (including that one) speak only in terms of present-day monetary costs to do things -- e.g., cost of process to recycle vs cost to dump in the ground. I am not the only one who feels that approach omits critical criteria. Complexity also plays a huge role, and not just in recycling, or even just economics. Any time you attempt to change some aspect of a system, you are practically always going to change other things, and often not realize some of them. This is often called "The Law of Unintended Consequences". Anyone designing secure protocols has encountered this problem! :-) Some choice quotes (I do like quotes, and think they are useful): "You can't do just one thing." (variously attributed) "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." -- John Muir -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
