[SamPatt]

Abolishing landfills? What exactly would this do?

There's an ungodly amount of free space on earth. Drive outside a major city sometime.

Preventing people from dumping on unused land in order to reduce emissions seems ... ridiculous?

[model-15-DAV]

Today, our industries abuse our planet's resources for the short term benefit of all of us. Abolishing landfills is a confirmation that we are past such a myopic technological level. We no longer need them.

> Drive outside a major city sometime.

Growing up in the suburbs, I understand this quite well. But this land is not ours just because it is there and unused. We need to return a majority of the earth back to the ecology. Monkeys are falling out of trees in Mexico, 50% of bugs and birds are dead due to the ecocide, I could go on.

Just referencing 'unused land' as if it is ours to use by default is a gross misunderstanding and human-centric approach to ecology. There is more than us here.

[SamPatt]

I am unabashedly human-centric, and only people suffering from affluenza think otherwise.

Read "The Improving State of the World" by Indur Goklany.

[model-15-DAV]

Talk about affluenza, telling someone 'go read theory'. Put your arguments in your own words.

[0xdde]

That book doesn't even rise to the level of "theory." Just drivel from a notorious climate denier.