The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.
The world defines 'waste' very differently than Jesus does.
It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.
Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.
The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
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