[lug] Anyone else hate to get rid of old equipment?

[Robert Racansky]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:

> But we all know and agree that most of our reasons for dumping CO is
> because we burn things.  We burn things we dig up to heat/light our
> cities, we burn things to move ourselves larger distances than we can
> travel via natural means, we burn things to move mountains
> (explosives!), and sometimes we burn things for fun (fireworks). Since
> the first man figured out how to light a fire, we've been burning
> things.  We're dependent on it right now for survival in most areas of
> the globe.

>
> If you want to prove it's reached "religious fervor" stage, just say...
>
> "I have twenty computers and I'm throwing them out without recycling them."
>
> Then watch the witch-burning and the fake trials begin, to make those
> "damning" the others to penalties feel better, even though they make
> just as big a mess with other "stuff" in their own lives.


Witch-burning dumps more CO and CO2 into the atmosphere.

Whether that causes global warming is questionable.  But it certainly
results in localized extreme warming for those involved.