Re: Recycling, Rosennean Style...

[Ayten Aydin <***>]

Leo, Dan
A query on the following:

"Perhaps in a glance towards Judith's desire for a practical approach,
one could develop the appropriate higher-level "soil" analogy in terms
of the functional strata of an integral  recycling framework for the
myriad waste products that we produce.
Nature does this stuff so very well."

Once, still in remote areas now, it was/is believed that running water will
not get  polluted as it purifies the waste  by oxiganating it while flowing.
Nature does this stuff so very well was therefore a correct statement to
make, also for soil. We have since then realized that it was the matter of
quantity. We have never experienced the effects of present quantities and
varieties of waste.  Both flowing water/shores and soil get polluted and in
times and places die for good!

What is then the practical value of trusting the nature's inherent ability
to purify or transform the waste naturally? In this connection I would go
along with Leo's view:

"I would imagine in practical terms there is more to be done in raising
awareness of 'total system accounting' than in any underlying
technology or science. " I would add:
with a lot and effective public education and consciousness raising
activities also with a continuing research to produce supporting scientific
proofs and perhaps some remedial solutions.

Ayten

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leo Caves" <***>
To: <***>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: Recycling, Rosennean Style...


> Dan, I think your comments on the importance and role of the soil in
> the wider system are very interesting and pertinent.
> Perhaps in a glance towards Judith's desire for a practical approach,
> one could develop the appropriate higher-level "soil" analogy in terms
> of the functional strata of an integral  recycling framework for the
> myriad waste products that we produce.
> Nature does this stuff so very well.
> Leo
>
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