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| If only Eduard were Planet Friendly; Why I despair Model Manufacturers | |
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| dknights | Sep 27 2016, 02:32 PM Post #31 |
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The court of LAST RESORT!
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My humble suggestion would be the marker ought to start with the rapid increase in human population that started about 1927. |
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David M. Knights Fortes fortuna adiuvat 14 Finished: Special Armor V-2, Airfix P-51 15 Finished: SBS Gladiator engine 16 Finished: Brengun C2 Wasserfall, Merit SS-N-2 Styx, World's smallest diorama, Airfix Hurricane. 17 Finished: Japanese Carrier Deck, 18 Finished: NONE The bench:Platz T-33, Trump. T-34/85, Meng F-106, Airfix P-51 #2, Airfix P-40 Revell MiG-21F-13, Ace Citroen V-11 | |
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| InchHigh | Sep 27 2016, 02:57 PM Post #32 |
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It's a good day to build.
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I agree the marker should be population based. We have just started impacting the planet, and in geologic terms even 1,000 years is insignificant. If the 20th century gave us plastic, carbon, and nukes, just think what the next ten centuries will bring! In 1800 the human population is estimated to have been one billion, in 2000 it was (roughly) seven billion. Extrapolate the trend. Yes, I know there are factors which can alter trend lines, but you see my point. |
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Jeff Time spent modeling is not deducted from your lifespan. I spent most of my money on beer and women. The rest of it I just wasted. | |
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| Mark Schynert | Sep 27 2016, 05:03 PM Post #33 |
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Yeast
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"Everybody Loves Raymond: The Movie"--The oceans will boil off, chihuahuas will become the dominant species, and the only new kits to be issued after that point will be 1/72 Bf 109Gs. That new epoch will be called the Banalocene. |
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| llordlloyd | Sep 28 2016, 09:38 AM Post #34 |
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I work for a very large hardware chain in Australia (Australians will have already guessed which company). Our waste (landfill) output is staggering. This includes that generated directly by customers: large bins here and there around the store swallow up huge amounts of unsorted rubbish, including hundreds of coffee cups every day from the paper-cup-only in-house cafe, to aluminium cans from the charity barbecue. Rubbish generated from within the store is mostly sorted, but time pressures mean much isn't. I'd bring myself to care about the lack of recycle buins but I'm certain a large minority would just throw anything anywhere. And on top of that most of our products are shoddy ephemera built by near-slave labour (a power saw for twenty-five bucks?). That's my work. My house is on a dirt road and my views are of some of the last real wilderness in the Western World. But my trip to work is 50km of endless litter, mostly drink and food containers thrown out of car windows. Even on my dirt road, which has about eight residences. The quiet tar road it connects to, to take me to the nearest town (2500 people), is positively lined with garbage. And there's a river right alongside. Now if I take it as a given that I live among filthy people, the best way to deal with this is a container deposit scheme to make this rubbish worth money. The last time a politician tried this several large beverage companies teamed up and stopped it, citing their intellectual property rights over their packaging. They won in the High Court. (I travelled in France in June this year and saw very, very little roadside rubbish, I suspect because they mostly sit down to eat, and have some goddam national pride). I'm afraid I long ago concluded that although I love many individuals, humans are a plague on this planet and my immediate reaction to news people are having kids is to think Shit, not MORE people?. |
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