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The memes of the climate

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The climate of the memes of the climate!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hate that they added more shit. "Reduce, reuse, recycle" was perfect.

"refuse" is literally the same thing as "reduce"

"repurpose" is a subset of "recycle"

What the fuck is it nowadays with wanting to tack on more useless shit to perfect mnemonics? Especially for a mnemonic whose entire point is to prevent wastefulness.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

“repurpose” is a subset of “recycle”

Repurpose is reuse, just for a different use than originally intended.

Your point about reduce, reuse, recycle being enough is absolutely correct and all I ever hear about is the recycle part which is counterproductive when it is used to justify mass consumption and disposable products.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Cause people often misunderstand the meaning of words.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd think 'repurpose' is part of 'reuse' rather than recycle. Doesn't recycle mean that you're going to destroy the object to extract its raw resources to be made into a new product? Whereas 'reuse' just means that you are going to use it again. I'd say 'repurpose' means you are going to use it again, but not in the same way it was used the first time.

In any case, I agree that the added words are unnecessary. Maybe they were added to deliberately weaken the slogan. Sometimes people deliberately try to make sustainable living sound like a lot of work, by adding a whole lot of extra steps and conditions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Repurpose is also similar to recycle though.

Because recycling's entire point is to repurpose it into something else...

Which might be why people also want repurpose... but I'm old and RRR is better than RRRRR. A mnemonics entire point is ease of memory.

Recycle reuse damnit!