Another pop at god and recycling
I was rereading a book on atheism yesterday. It made me think about what God's beliefs (if there is a god) would be. Would god be an atheist?
The answer, if you think about it is fairly straight forward. One online dictionary defines Atheism,
"as a philosophical view, is the position that either affirms the nonexistence of gods or rejects theism. When defined more broadly, atheism is the absence of belief in deities, alternatively called nontheism"
If god has no god to worship and knows there is no other god then he has no choice than to be an atheist as belief in oneself as a god seems hardly a qualification of faith.
So if god is an atheist then that makes an interesting precedent for the religious. Its ok to be an atheist because god is an atheist. Get your head around that multi level paradox.
On a completely different note. Recycling. Did you know that aluminium cans are worth about 40p per Kg and it takes about 60 cans to make up a Kg. So if you wanted to earn 5000 pounds from recycling cans you would need about 750,000 tin cans which you could never actually collect at a cost to make it worthwhile. And aluminium is considered one of the few recyclables that are really cost effective.
What this means is that there is no money in recycling unless the consumers are actively involved. The collection of most recyclables is a negative business case ignoring the environmental benefits. As oil prices rise the cost of collection will grow.
As with just about everything environmental, until the finances of recycling start to make sense to not just the recyclers but the consumers we are unlikely to see major increases in recycling rates above those we have today.
The solution? The cost of items need to reflect their whole life cost and not just the value at time of consumption. This would push the price of aluminium and other recyclables to levels where the value paid to the collector would be profitable and therefore more would be recycled.
As it stands today, the costs of collection (wages, fuel, vans etc) is likely to rise faster than the value of the commodity. Increasing the costs of landfill tax will not make the positive case needed but will just increase fly tipping.
The answer, if you think about it is fairly straight forward. One online dictionary defines Atheism,
"as a philosophical view, is the position that either affirms the nonexistence of gods or rejects theism. When defined more broadly, atheism is the absence of belief in deities, alternatively called nontheism"
If god has no god to worship and knows there is no other god then he has no choice than to be an atheist as belief in oneself as a god seems hardly a qualification of faith.
So if god is an atheist then that makes an interesting precedent for the religious. Its ok to be an atheist because god is an atheist. Get your head around that multi level paradox.
On a completely different note. Recycling. Did you know that aluminium cans are worth about 40p per Kg and it takes about 60 cans to make up a Kg. So if you wanted to earn 5000 pounds from recycling cans you would need about 750,000 tin cans which you could never actually collect at a cost to make it worthwhile. And aluminium is considered one of the few recyclables that are really cost effective.
What this means is that there is no money in recycling unless the consumers are actively involved. The collection of most recyclables is a negative business case ignoring the environmental benefits. As oil prices rise the cost of collection will grow.
As with just about everything environmental, until the finances of recycling start to make sense to not just the recyclers but the consumers we are unlikely to see major increases in recycling rates above those we have today.
The solution? The cost of items need to reflect their whole life cost and not just the value at time of consumption. This would push the price of aluminium and other recyclables to levels where the value paid to the collector would be profitable and therefore more would be recycled.
As it stands today, the costs of collection (wages, fuel, vans etc) is likely to rise faster than the value of the commodity. Increasing the costs of landfill tax will not make the positive case needed but will just increase fly tipping.
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