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Old 06-24-2012, 09:51 AM
 
Location: NJ
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That investment/career advice given to Benjamin in the ? late 60s/early 70s movie the, "Graduate" has gone awry.

Countless examples of lifesaving products using plastics are tempered by the underbelly of myopic scientific approach that often accompanies those advances.

To say the 'science is settled' regarding an issue is to proclaim the speaker to be fatally immersed in infinite ignorance.

We learn from nature and this is hard lesson of shortsightness needs to be categorically applied to the spectrum of our plans whether it be social science, ethanol production, human caused global warming, windmills, elections or anything else.

We are a male dominated society in kind who clebrates the conception of ideas with unbounded energy and then fail to maintain, nurture and develop the product of that conception.

A very disturbing movie, very disturbing.

[SIZE=5]http://www.midwayfilm.com[/SIZE]
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Old 06-24-2012, 11:00 AM
 
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That investment/career advice given to Benjamin in the ? late 60s/early 70s movie the, "Graduate" has gone awry.

Countless examples of lifesaving products using plastics are tempered by the underbelly of myopic scientific approach that often accompanies those advances.

To say the 'science is settled' regarding an issue is to proclaim the speaker to be fatally immersed in infinite ignorance.

We learn from nature and this is hard lesson of shortsightness needs to be categorically applied to the spectrum of our plans whether it be social science, ethanol production, human caused global warming, windmills, elections or anything else.

We are a male dominated society in kind who clebrates the conception of ideas with unbounded energy and then fail to maintain, nurture and develop the product of that conception.

A very disturbing movie, very disturbing.

[SIZE=5]http://www.midwayfilm.com[/SIZE]
Even our water well is PVC.
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Old 06-25-2012, 07:40 AM
 
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Without plastics, think of all the everyday things that would have to be made of wood, or steel, or glass, or aluminum. Where would all that material have come from, with what environmental impact?

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Old 06-25-2012, 08:11 AM
 
Location: The western periphery of Terra Australis
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What's your point, that we should stop using plastics?
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Old 06-25-2012, 09:23 AM
 
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That investment/career advice given to Benjamin in the ? late 60s/early 70s movie the, "Graduate" has gone awry.

Countless examples of lifesaving products using plastics are tempered by the underbelly of myopic scientific approach that often accompanies those advances.

To say the 'science is settled' regarding an issue is to proclaim the speaker to be fatally immersed in infinite ignorance.

We learn from nature and this is hard lesson of shortsightness needs to be categorically applied to the spectrum of our plans whether it be social science, ethanol production, human caused global warming, windmills, elections or anything else.

We are a male dominated society in kind who clebrates the conception of ideas with unbounded energy and then fail to maintain, nurture and develop the product of that conception.

A very disturbing movie, very disturbing.

[SIZE=5]http://www.midwayfilm.com[/SIZE]
So, skipping the inflammatory rhetoric (underlined), is your comment that plastic is used in inappropriate ways? Having a male body does not preclude me from agreeing with that, even with your misguided attempt to turn off half of your audience.

The issues go deeper though, into profit and loss sheets, limited lifetimes of products, energy balance sheets, etc. If you had mentioned those I might have been more comfortable that you weren't just spouting.
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