I'm going to put this up temporarily with a Tom Waits song (a little drop of poison) and then delete it in a few days. It's below the fold...
Well a rat always knows when he's in with weasels...
1) Mining and smelting investments are driven away from property values; they create most of the poison, species and habitat loss, carbon, etc. It's an ugly business. Most of the "harm" your computer will ever commit to the earth was done before you brought it home from the store and opened the box.
2) Labor value is found in high density in ghettos (lighter blue) and "emerging" neighborhoods. It is a resource, and it is agnostic... it does not recognize whether metal is "Mined ore" or "Recycled Ore", and putting a label of "waste" onto urban ores has had unintended consequences. In the past few years, the term "waste" has been abusively applied to material which is "in surplus" in one geographic location (e.g. working CRT monitors) and sold, added value intact, to a market where the goods are not in surplus. An alien would not understand how recycled metal is regulated differently from virgin metal, the wealth or nationality of the previous scrap metal owner would be undetectable.
But the alien de Tocqueville would be able to see material moving around, and see the economic value of the property that people were living in, and see the regulatory functions were associated with property value.
The Spock de Tocqueville would observe People trying to feed their siblings hungry kids will do a lot of things. "Useless Lists of Jobs Beneath Wealthy People" and "E-Waste Poster Child" blogs were my attempts to treat people doing "e-waste", primitively or immaculately, in a position as an equal.
Below is a chart which I have trouble fitting here, but it's my attempt to show the jobs people have moving value and creating value out of the various land value areas.
If you follow the movement of material and value through the digestive system of adolescent nations, you learn that the free market has a lot of environmental credit.
Well a rat always knows when he's in with weasels...
1) Mining and smelting investments are driven away from property values; they create most of the poison, species and habitat loss, carbon, etc. It's an ugly business. Most of the "harm" your computer will ever commit to the earth was done before you brought it home from the store and opened the box.
2) Labor value is found in high density in ghettos (lighter blue) and "emerging" neighborhoods. It is a resource, and it is agnostic... it does not recognize whether metal is "Mined ore" or "Recycled Ore", and putting a label of "waste" onto urban ores has had unintended consequences. In the past few years, the term "waste" has been abusively applied to material which is "in surplus" in one geographic location (e.g. working CRT monitors) and sold, added value intact, to a market where the goods are not in surplus. An alien would not understand how recycled metal is regulated differently from virgin metal, the wealth or nationality of the previous scrap metal owner would be undetectable.
But the alien de Tocqueville would be able to see material moving around, and see the economic value of the property that people were living in, and see the regulatory functions were associated with property value.
The Spock de Tocqueville would observe People trying to feed their siblings hungry kids will do a lot of things. "Useless Lists of Jobs Beneath Wealthy People" and "E-Waste Poster Child" blogs were my attempts to treat people doing "e-waste", primitively or immaculately, in a position as an equal.
Below is a chart which I have trouble fitting here, but it's my attempt to show the jobs people have moving value and creating value out of the various land value areas.
If you follow the movement of material and value through the digestive system of adolescent nations, you learn that the free market has a lot of environmental credit.
