DistractionFromExtraction 3: It's what we eat, not what we poop

Restaurant Industry A sells Endangered Species Platter.

Restaurant Industry B sells beef cattle.

Restaurant Industry C sells shark fin soup.

Restaurant Industry D sells foix gras and veal cutlet.

Restaurant Industry E sells organic beets.

Restaurant Industry F sells termite soup.

I like termites. They are a great source of sustainable protein, and they clear dead plant matter from forest and fawna. But I don't want them in the walls and basement of my house. The point being, I don't care about their excrement, I care about their source of consumption.

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Imagine those restaurant industries form a Restaurant Industry lobby.  And now activist environmentalists have journalists asking about the ethics on the menu...

Suddenly the industry lobby funds a massive campaign for restaurant consumers to properly manage their poop the day after they paid for the meal.  And a crying Indian ad surfaces to show just how badly some consumers manage their poop.

#DistractionFromExtraction 2: It's The Extraction. Period.

We should be judged by future generations.

And we will be. I live in a kind of skin and mentality that puts me in front of those to-be great-great-grandchildren, who will read about us, watch documentaries about us, and talk about what we did here on earth, during our lives.

Let us not be bad ancestors 

A super intelligence knows that every page and word in a book exists at once. The current page, occupied by the Anthropocenes (A. Minter, 2016, "How We Think About Recycling Is In Need of Repair"), is behaving as if future generations won't matter, that pages of extinction, ocean pollution, warming will be somehow made up for by the relative increase in wealth in emerging markets (#Gapminder). That has merits, but only if everybody learns to respect science, and learns to care.

Relative intelligence unites conservatives and liberals, and puts conservation back into "Conserve"-ative, and non-cancelling liberal thought back into "Liberal". Example - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-fascinating-second-lives-of-stuff/

Tralfamadore

#DistractionFromExtraction - Don't Fall For the Pose, @GUARDIANECO

(original title "Why EPA Laws Revolve Around You, not Nature")

Why the blog is moving increasingly to Twitter.

#DISTRACTIONFROMEXTRACTION

#DON'TFALLFORTHEPOSE

#CIRCULARECONOMYDOESNTREVOLVEAROUNDYOU

It forces me to distill important thoughts to faster messages.

My most "important thoughts" are dissecting "narratives" into actual facts, opinions, and (yeesh) group-think. Hopefully the tweets attract the attention of people (swordfish) actually capable of reading and understanding articles like "Time Out of Mined" (when I take an important blog or two and find a Resource Recycling or Recycling Today editor to help me polish it to the point where the editor at least understands "the good point" idea).

Ironically, The American Conservative writer Addison Del Mastro gets it.