What is a blog…

It’s 3:45 in the morning. I have to write a paper for my english class. It is more of a presentation then a “paper.” Though; I do have to collect ideas together and generate an original idea for a group of classmates.

The professor got really creative on the topic suggestion.

“Save the Planet”

I started brainstorming like any good ol’writer would.

First idea I came up with was the ‘great debate’ approach. In this presentation I thought I could come up with all of the ‘great debates’ that are currently in the headlines and in practice.

Ex: Does a new clean air act do enough to cut carbon emissions? Oil drilling needs to stop, People need to recycle more. and etc etc

I hear all of the great ideas and think about the conversations to follow and they just create really theatrical debates. Hence the concept of the ‘great debate.’ Though, if that worked the planet would be saved already.

Then, I was encouraged to shorten the list to only the elements that couldn’t be debated.

Oil ~ well in the great debate it could be said that removing oil use would solve all of the global warming problems. Though that’s just saving the effects of stronger climate change. That is not really saving the planet… Human’s live under a system that thrives off of waste. So, the planet would still be polluted, and the land will still be destroyed.

So, I had to move on from that idea. Oil is a great enemy of the entire planet but it is not going to “Save the Planet” if humanity just stops using it.

Pollution ~ This idea is investing into the debate of waste. Nucluar material in the water, garbage, sewage, smog, and carbon emissions. So many sub-categories of problems that there is no real time to focus on a single solution. Environmentalist have done a fantastic job of educating and passing on the knowledge of recycling through the use of the internet but the answer doesn’t fall into the hands of the ‘individual’s pollution’ but the waste of large quantities.

This topic is already starting to get me annoyed and tired. “The Great Debate” can just open up so many dumb topics of interest. Meaning, if you like the forest a whole lot; the idea of cutting down trees is more important of a debate, then the garbage in the streets in the city 2 hours from where you live.

What this does is keep people from talking about solutions. Now, you have an entire collective of minds spinning in an endless circle of debate.

Isn’t that what the debates are supposed to be about, solutions?

Anyways… I moved on from this debate list and thought. That is not the right approach.

If the debates worked then the planet would already be saved. So, how can the planet be saved? The education is available to who ever wants to recieve it on the net. The technology to fix everything is available. Though, it not about the individual’s waste.

I started to think about this for a while… Why is there waste?

I looked it up on investopedia…

INVESTOPEDIA EXPLAINS ‘ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY’

A state of economic efficiency is essentially just a theoretical one; a limit that can be approached but never reached. Instead, economists look at the amount of waste (or loss) between pure efficiency and reality to see how efficiently an economy is functioning.

Measuring economic efficiency is often subjective, relying on assumptions about the social good created and how well that serves consumers. Basic market forces like the level of prices, employment rates and interest rates can be analyzed to determine the relative improvements made toward economic efficiency from one point in time to another.

I think I found the problem right there…

Waste is the key problem to save the planet! Remove waste from the world!

Though why can ‘economic efficiency’ never be reached?

That is simple… If your cell phone never died why would you ever buy a new one? The idea of waste creates a need for a product. So things will always be made cheaper or with an acceptable level of waste.

In other words… things will always be made to break or fall apart.

There are people who use everything they have to its fullest and live off just that. They don’t believe in waste and are truly efficient. So once again this comes back to the waste of large quantities.

It’s not profitable to be ‘economically efficient.’

Once the system can learn to be economically efficient then the planet can be saved.

Water purification and filtration systems are available but for the interest of greater profit, less machines are made and polluted water is consumed.

Clean drinking water is sold instead of being delivered to your home.

Creating a whole new market of waste; bottled water.

If it were more profitable to give everyone the means to filter their own water at home then that would be the growing market.

Solve the issue of “Theoretical Economic Efficiency” and then you would no longer need the ‘Great Debate’ but could start talking about solutions.