> The less political side of sustainable design is talking about
> the technical side of things. Don't get so wrapped up in the "whys". Not
> everyone believes in sustainable design because they think that global
> warming is real and will destroy the world. Some might just think that
> "hey, might it not be nice to try to make more prudent use of materials and
> maybe save myself some money".
That's fine - IF the politicians wouldn't get involved. But with the
huge bucks that George Soros and his ilk (the TRUE threats to our
liberties, not the "oil companies," whoever that is) have to throw them,
that's just not gonna happen.
All this stuff is being MANDATED legislatively, and that's the ultimate
problem. It's a slow (or not-so-slow, anymore) turn toward the "planned
economy" that has NEVER worked and in fact has served to impoverish
billions over nearly a century of world history.
If companies were allowed to notice for themselves "hey, people want
"green" on the label," then that's fine. Market forces ALWAYS work,
efficiently and correctly. But that's not what's happening.
Take the "biofuels" catastrophe. In just the two years since the
Democrat took control of Congress, and made good on their Algorish
promise to provide "alternate energy solutions" (which to them, meant
biofuels and wind-power and other such "solutions" with little or no
real proven technology behind them), they have managed to create a
global food shortage!
That's what "planned economy" does for you, whether it's a famine in the
1920s Ukraine or the environmental DISASTER that was East Germany. It
NEVER works, because among other things no one is ACCOUNTABLE for its
working (unlike the free market). It's all just slogans for the next
election cycle (until the Left gets its fond wish of a Cuba-style
dictatorship, anyway).
I am all for hybrid vehicles and recycled content and low carbon
footprint this, that and the other thing. But the pols won't allow that
to just "happen"; they will insist on getting CREDIT for it as much as
possible, and controlling it with their own hands. And that spells DISASTER.
Look at the price of gas since the latest Congress took "control" of
energy policy. Look at the food price increases. You can blame "the oil
companies" if you don't want to actually THINK about any of it, but that
won't change reality.
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