When the icebergs melt, we will not have the planet flooded
in a neo-Noah incident.
Indeed, the millions of tons of garbage that we produce
every day will come to save us from sinking.
This goes as an epilogue to the story I compiled last year on
the plastic island floating around the Pacific, apparently, now,
on a tide of radiation from Fuked up Fukushima.
Garbage as an economic indicator. Guess what?
When people are afraid of recession, they throw away less
garbage. I suppose they sleep with their chicken bones
buried in the garden. Garbage to GDP.
A new economic indicator (I got it from Ritholz Big Picture)
You may think that what comes from the planet is merely recycled.
But you'd be wrong. What about oil? We dredge it up
and then make garbage with it. The garbage gets piled
up above the waterline. Ergo, we get saved by our garbage.
However, we may end up floating in it, and our fecal matter.
