Ever get an sharp pang when you don’t recycle?

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As my company has introduced an even more complicated recycling scheme (where coffee cups go in one bin, but coffee lids go in another), I remembered this fun debate I watched a while ago entitled “Recycling is a waste of time“.

If you don’t believe that just try it in Germany.

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Environmentalism as religion.

“Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists…There’s an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there’s a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all.”
– Michael Crichton, “Environmentalism as Religion”

“In the absence of an economic incentive, governments’ interest appears to be in using environmental issues as a kind of secular religion: weekly worship at the bottle bank.”
– Rob Lyons, “Recycling Religion”

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