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I agree that TPTB have probably decided that it's not worth trying to fix the problem and the argument about human v natural forces is indeed moot.
BBC had a program about recyclables going to landfill in Asia earlier this week, allegedly from some UK contractors tasked with kerbside collections - which just makes me angry.
Next go around there won't be any easily-accessible fossil fuels to power any resurgent civilisation after a collapse, which is going to make it tough to scramble back when the climate eventually balances itself out again.
From a future-historical perspective, humanity will have appeared to have gone from industrial revolution to collapse in something like 500 years - after existing as a natural species for about 5 million. Talk about meteoric falls!
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