I was humbled on Slashdot for using analogies which some folks didn't get. And I also saw people drawing conclusions about the RIP story which questioned environmentalism altogether, certainly not my point.
Some folks do see the beauty I see in Techs of Color, people in poor countries with nothing but their knowledge creating value from what someone else threw away. Perhaps it comes down to a taste for bittersweet. I like the video embedded below, from the Sibonile School for the Blind in Africa.