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Originally Posted by Krash Well, given the choice of ordering other people to "secure" that resource, how about 100%?
200%?
What is a life worth? By being dependent on that region, by having to spend HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars, as well as risking hundreds of thousands of soldiers AND killing 10's, even hundreds of thousands of civillians, to effectively subsidise this "cheap" product, how much are we actually spending on these products? |
but you're being rhetorical now Krash.... if life is so precious as to require us to take all measures available to save it..... we would not be permitted to use cars, fly airplanes, swim in pools etc. etc.
Also, you'll have to find some statistcs on what percentage of western oil consumption is used in the plastics industry. I'm thinking relative to oil use for fuel and lubricant its gonna be pretty far down the list. Thus rendering this discussion essentially meaningless... although pedantically interesting.
I'm impressed and all that this guy figured out how to make plastic from oranges... but let's be frank about it.... the world makes choices based on efficiency of means. Too few people will buy the more expensive product in the market in order to save a tree Krash - too few to justify continued production of the more expensive product... that's just the way it is.
and for the record... I always ask for paper bags at the grocery store... so I'm doing my part to not consume plastic bags
