Campfire on Piseco-Powley Road
A hot evening in the wilderness.
Long Point
Crane Lake 85
July 10, 2018 8:12 am Update
Time really does slow down on the summer months.🐶 This morning my Kill a Watt meter reads 59.9 Hz which means that any clock that counts cycles is running slightly slower than normal, losing a few seconds as the day goes on. ⏲But I’m sure tonight as load decreases off the grid, they’ll make the night a few seconds shorter to accomplish the roughly correct number of cycles for the day.🔌
More Recycling Won’t Solve Plastic Pollution
"The only thing worse than being lied to is not knowing you’re being lied to. It’s true that plastic pollution is a huge problem, of planetary proportions. And it’s true we could all do more to reduce our plastic footprint. The lie is that blame for the plastic problem is wasteful consumers and that changing our individual habits will fix it."
"Recycling plastic is to saving the Earth what hammering a nail is to halting a falling skyscraper. You struggle to find a place to do it and feel pleased when you succeed. But your effort is wholly inadequate and distracts from the real problem of why the building is collapsing in the first place. The real problem is that single-use plastic—the very idea of producing plastic items like grocery bags, which we use for an average of 12 minutes but can persist in the environment for half a millennium—is an incredibly reckless abuse of technology. Encouraging individuals to recycle more will never solve the problem of a massive production of single-use plastic that should have been avoided in the first place."