The past few years, the Recycling Community made a lot of progress on a couple of fronts. Mainly, the decade-long furvent conviction that "environmental justice" meant boycotts - and arrests - of geeks of color in Emerging Market Tech Sectors has been recognized as an #OwnGoal. Last month's post of the Recycling Today podcast, and this month's recognition in Recycling International's Top 100, mostly paid tribute to a cold revenge against the 80% Waste Hoax. He who shall not be named has disappeared from the Top 100 list.
This weekend I'll try to use a common challenge - recycling on an island - to explore how my recycling philosophy can bubble-sort ethical dilemmas using logic and statistical likely outcomes. I can already see some prospect for "long-form blogging". But it's the only December blog, and there are still people discovering the evolution of recycling ethics.
My takeaway: Ptolemy is the perspective of gravity around one's own ego. Like "Spiritual Materialism", wanting to do the right thing is necessary - but by no means sufficient - to having the most sustainable impact. Too often we view our environmental efforts from within our own silo - or on our own island - relative to other humans acting for other various reasons. In a karma-Judeo-Islam-Christian morality, God is going to grade on the curve. My moral licensing is measured by my effort to excercise on my care for the planet, etc. Better than nothing. A Ptolemy map of the cosmos is better than no record at all. We'll test that out today.