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by model-15-DAV 740 days ago
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.

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

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

Talk about affluenza, telling someone 'go read theory'. Put your arguments in your own words.
That book doesn't even rise to the level of "theory." Just drivel from a notorious climate denier.