The Unsustainable Water Bottle
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Big Life
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“Ever Changing Truth”
As we grow, what we thought was true, changes. If we keep growing and learning, this pattern becomes so obvious, that we learn to hold onto what we think is true quite loosely - because we understand we are likely to change our mind in the future. Are there things…
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Overwriting
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The age of infinite wisdom
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How to be an effective, happy human
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Blinded by being right
As soon as you are convinced you're right, you lose your ability to find out what right is. Instead we could say "This is my best (guess, interpretation or position) now, but I'm open to understanding more about it." Are your positions fixed?
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Thanks for this post. It’s important that we all consider this and make good choices. Tap water in most places is perfectly fine. While some bottled water, especially if the bottled-on date is older than 3 months, can have bacteria (my brother works for the EPA).
Everyday we need to think about the choices we make to minimize our waste. This goes from how many napkins we use to the light that we leave on. Being conscious about this at all times can make a difference. If we all did, the effects would be impacting.
Great reminder,example and question.
A bit of a contrary opinion, but recycling isn’t the long term solution, it’s just a short term stop-gap. The long term solution is the reclamation of landfills and the ability to process the unsorted output of the waste management trucks. In fact, I think recycling hurts the long term solution by reducing the amount the high value materials in the landfills and trucks. We absolutely should deal with our waste problems, but the long term good solution is an entrepreneurial opportunity that is being undercut by the current “panic/crisis” approach of preaching recycling everywhere at all times. And not only are we not running out of landfill space, but lots of the recycled materials we so painstakingly sort out go straight to the landfill anyway. This means we could reduce our recycling behavior without reducing the benefits we get from recycling, and adding more recycling behavior doesn’t increase our benefit. I’d encourage everyone to focus on the long term solutions to actually make a difference.