While I'm excited to hear that the city's plan includes ambitious goals for eliminating landfill, and I'm pragmatic enough to accept that waste - to - energy may be a least -
bad temporary solution until we can design for truly cradle - to - cradle manufacture, I'm saddened to see that this announcement — like so many others before it — focuses on waste treatment and management, whereas tackling waste supply — i.e. throwing away less stuff — should always come first.
«Don't think I don't think carefully about all the potential
solutions, I do,» he said, a little pleadingly, as he explained that
temporary borrowing was as
bad as
temporary tax cuts.