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Perhaps I was too subtle. My naivety is predicated on a lack of technical knowledge, while my original response was to question to what extent plastics and metals (amongst other wasted resources) can be eradicated from yours and my wanting.

I am well aware of many of the realities that exist elsewhere, yet what I am not aware of is the practical knowledge those folk use to negate their poisoning and constraint to unhealth. For instance I am aware of how water filtration systems, utilised by individuals and groups in Bangladesh, to counter arsenic poisoning are built, while I am unaware of how to or whether I or my friends might be able to filter a river being strewn with shit downstream.

What pertinent knowing exists now, but is being neglected, overlooked, hoarded, cached, ignored or plain lost to the wrist swinging of current comforts? I refuse destinies of merely hearing about scavenging trash and "swimming" in cess until finding myself aggrievedly doing the same. I have no desire for the white knight coming to save me with his "only if..."