Posted by Snow in The eschatology of scavenging is hereby described. How do we feel like grubbing around for used stuff? Can we feel better about it because it will pay off in the long run? Is recycling here to stay? Or is it a token gesture part and parcel of the recycling miasma that causes inert re-use in some areas?
This book sgets right to the heart of why more people can’t follow recycling in everyday lives even though the benefits are clear. The associations with re-use are not positive in the culture we have grown up in. A re-education (or re-use of recycling values) needs to occur.
The authors of this book parcel out why scavenging and grubbing for things to re use and recycle goes against the grain. Humans were made to acquire, to have overmuch, to disdain saving and parcelling out bits to make do when we obviously can afford to do better.
Are you the type of person who goes through Costco nabbing the free samples? You are a personality fit for the scavenger lifestyle. But with all the free sample grubbing comes the responsibility to answer back the other side of the equation with viciously strict recycling and adaptive re-use.
The Biblical interpetation of scavenging is hereby explored. Evidently Adam was green, but a naturualist. Cain was a “tiller of the ground”. The Bible’s first nonmigratory agriculturalist. The Bible is indeed the first pictorial fable of grandiose living and the scavenger’s journey through the desert.
It may feel as though we live in a consumer paradise, but we really have a symbolic anomale to the 40 days and 40 nights of conservation to heal our planet.
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