Dudes,
What Robin is saying here is that environmentalists have, for a long time, been totally freaked out by the destruction of coral reefs, rain forest habitat, extinction and stuff.
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| Not even me, man |
Then the ones who got all serious about protecting against that stuff started trying out businesses which preserve the rain forests and oceans and stuff. Like fair trade coffee farms, sustainable fisheries, and recycling. The recycling thing, that was huge, because it turned all of us into, like, this big urban forest, this urban mine, and we could reduce the consumption of natural resources and energy, like. I mean, compared to building incinerators which then had to be fed more and more junk, that bunch of guy dudes and girl dudes doing the recycling thing in the 80s and 90s, man, that was totally respectful.
Then when recycling got mainstream (boring to activists), these guys started looking at toxics. Like, if we are the source of raw materials like fiber and copper and aluminum and steel, from our mining houses, then let's also look at our toxics, man. Totally awesome. We got these budgets based on diverting toxics from these landfills and incinerators, and we made even more jobs.
