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#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.

The Twitter Thread yesterday is aimed at someone younger who is trying to understand Environmental Justice and Environmental Cost Externalization theory.  The next generation 3.0 enviros need to avoid the "silo" of property value protection, which spends limited regulatory authority on the wealthy when the rising wealth and average income worldwide threatens Nature itself.



#HURRICANEJOEBENSONNEVERSHIPPEDANYTHINGTOAGBOGBLOSHIE

Ocean Plastic has NOTHING to do with exported plastics, or at least no more relationship than recently imported electronics by African Geek Entrepreneurs had anything to do with the TVs imported to Africa 30 years earlier, finally winding up at African city dumps.

Twisting Basel Convention to fire at RECYCLING, REUSE, AND REPAIR turns the externalization problem on its head, to the benefit of MINING and EXTRACTION.

The worst (true) recycling is better than the best mining and petroleum extraction. All extraction should be postponed as long as possible, to be done when environmental technology and property value have caught up, by future human generations. Leave it for the kids to extract, we can get by like our ancestors did, with reuse and repair and scrap recycling.



Just remember - international trade happens and a more circular economy allows poor nations to choose between MINING and EXTRACTION vs. REPAIR and RECYCLING. It does not revolve around you just because you touched the material. Your dollars, rich people, are paying for the externalized extraction even while denying agency to the EXPERT foreign markets.

DON'T let Basel Action Network sabotage the Basel Convention Treaty Annex IX B1110 (which I wrote about in the very first year of this blog). Do not let them commit the Keep America (or Atlantic) Beautiful KAB big plastic funded perversion-strategy against SCRAP and RECYCLING and REUSE industries. They are telling the same lies, and useful Idiots like The Guardian keep falling for it rather than tracing where BAN's budget comes from (OEMs, Big Shred, Planned Obsolescence, Anti-Repair, Anti-Reuse interests using the lack of systemic access international treaties to sabotage Geeks in Taiwan, Indonesia, Ghana, etc.

DON'T FALL FOR THE "POSE". @guardianeco

You committed the greatest damage to Africa's Tech Sector by posing scrappers in African slums (#Agbogbloshie) as the Agents of Trade.  YOU DID NOT INTERVIEW A SINGLE AFRICAN BUYER, TECHNICIAN, SKILLED REPAIRER.  YOU CREATED 'EXPERTISE' FUELED BY FAKE DATA (80%) AND GROSS RACIAL PROFILING MASKED AS PHOTOJOURNALISM.  


AND @guardianeco DID NOT LEARN FROM IT.  YOU ARE NOW QUOTING THE SAME PEOPLE WHO MISLEAD YOU, POSING AND POSTING AS EXPERTS IN OCEAN PLASTIC.  FOR GOD'S SAKE, VISIT JAKARTA.  THE PLASTIC IN THE RIVERS THERE WAS NOT IMPORTED BY SCRAP RECYCLING FACTORIES.

WR3A staff visited this plastic recycling factory in Indonesia in 2008. Has anyone quoted by @guardianeco been to one of these? Has anyone READ Annex IX B1110 of the Basel Convention, which states that purchase intended for reuse or recycling is NOT "dumping"?

Indonesia Plastic Recycler removing paper sticker / labels






Externalization is a problem, but big industry is manipulating liberal environmentalists to distract from extraction.

#distractionfromextraction




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Robin I
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by focusing on recycling and waste management in their urban system, they are leveraging the property value and sense of liability (guilt). That's a recipe to ignore where ocean bound plastic comes from, and collateral damage against urban reuse and recycling #freejoebenson t2
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Robin I
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Increasingly conventions, like Basel, are being systemically leveraged by wealthy nations to turn from illegal waste dumping to authority over repair and recycling activity EXPLICITLY legal under the original Annex IX #freejoebenson #ownvoices vimeo.com/116852349 t3
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Robin I
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The environmental enforcement system does little to address mining and extraction costs which should be born by the wealthy. The EPA dollars are mostly concentrated on litter and effluent in rich nations. And the envirol community needs a grip. It doesn't revolve around you. t4
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Robin I
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Posing heroically to oppose scrap plastic, metal, electronics repair-reuse-recycling trade is polarizing to a class of workers who do the picking and lifting in those industries, and labelling global south Recycling and Repair entrepreneurs as "primitives" is systemic bias t5/7
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Robin I
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It's the extraction. Period.
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