I found out there really are "evil minions"
on_one_wheel wrote:I think the Amish have the most sensible approach to living on this planet.
It looks like a good balance between stone age living with zero impact and 2020's living where we chew every up and spit it out... the throw it away age?
If the planet is in so much trouble why is it still legal to make things non serviceable?
Lazarus wrote:on_one_wheel wrote:I
If the planet is in so much trouble why is it still legal to make things non serviceable?
Excellent point.
Planned obsolescence is at the root of that problem, eh?
Printers are just one example, you can buy a photo capable printer for $35, yet replacement ink can be 3 times that.
They also have a counter in the power circuit so if you can get cheap ink, you only get a certain number of pages before the counter opens the circuit and your printer no longer works.
I can't find it but there's a docco called "The 1000 hour light bulb" where it's explained better.
The article below does explain how it started.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-great-lig ... conspiracy
bigrich wrote:on_one_wheel wrote:I think the Amish have the most sensible approach to living on this planet.
It looks like a good balance between stone age living with zero impact and 2020's living where we chew every up and spit it out... the throw it away age?
If the planet is in so much trouble why is it still legal to make things non serviceable?
this is the crux of the problem . human population is expanding at a unprecedented rate and ,we have developing countries around the world moving from a low impact village life (like the amish) to wanting first world luxuries , = more munufactuing . climate problem , simples. we'll manfacture more "green" products
the amount of mining for rare earth metals and copper negates any "green" savings , and the energy expended to make electric cars . human civilisation needs expansion for jobs ect , to prosper . more manufacturing . new products to sell to consumers .that's why nothing is made to last anymore .
your right about the throw away age . western culture in these modern days is a joke in that regard
i saw a doco on the mayans , i think , where their population expanded to a point they'd cut down all their forests for timber and farming land . the loss of the forests brought on extended drought which brought down their empire through famine . no evaporation/humidity from forest canopy , no rain .