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Comment 29 for General Comments for the GHG Scoping Plan (sp-general-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Jacob
Last Name: Hall
Email Address: janthonyhall@gmail.com
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Subject: We don't need perfection, we need progress
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After reviewing the main thrust of this plan, I cannot help but agree with so many other comments that it represents an unfeasible adherence to the zero-waste, zero-emissions othodoxy. This is an untenable goal. While I agree that that is where our society should be someday, there is absolutely zero chance we will get there overnight. What we need to be looking at, especially in terms of municipal and industrial waste, are the avenues where we can reduce our carbon footprint today, tomorrow, and in the near future. We need to use waste conversion technologies, and not keep filling our landfills and hoping everyone stops producing trash. We need to ratchet down our emissions step by step, and not buy into the religiously-held belief that our way of living must become eco-neutral overnight. What is criticalis the real pragmatism of doing things to save our planet over the long term, developing technologies and a lifestyle culture step by step that will lead our civilization to eco-neutrality. To get there, we must adopt progressive, although not perfect, solutions that will provide short and medium term environmental successes while concurrently reconfiguring our economic and technological engines towards the goal of carbon freedom.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-07-07 10:04:37
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