California's Electronic Waste Recycling Act!!!...Huh?

[GlassMan]

I wouldn't exactly say it is a matter of economics when the regulation is opposed by industry and imposed by government. It is simply that currently the strictest environmental regulations are imposed by the EU and it is easier for government bureaucrats to adopt someone elses standard than it is to come up with your own.

[Valencian Kilted]

Asia, eastern europe, north africa, mexico and brazil are growing areas in terms of industrial and bussiness potential. EU is suffering as well as USA the "globalisation" problems and loosing the massive tech bussiness. All the great "High Tech" industries are moving to China, Malaisia, Romania, Vietnam, Mexico, etc,... and flying away from here. Of course, we could be saving lots of money avoiding to apply those rules over environmental protection, (as USA did rejecting the Kyoto Protocol), and then try to be more competitive, but at the end, we noticed that the cost of solving the problems caused by climatic change and other environmental problems is higher than the final cost of trying to be safe from them.

How much will be the ammount of "repairing" everything that hurricanes did this year in USA?, how much will it cost to my country to solve the lack of rains? Since May, in my hometown we have only received 68 litres of rain,... and we are lucky because last winter it snowed and some reserves under the soil were filled, but, what will happen next year?,... the whole planet is giving us back what we did to it, what we did to us all... and I'm not also a "greenpeace hooligan", ok? I simply have eyes, and my olive and almond trees are thirsty!!

Somebody said once that if a stone falls in USA, it can provoke an earthquake in China,... that means that everything we do affects us all. We can blame Russia, China or USA for being massive contaminators, but to do so, we must be the first at the time of taking action to change things at home, and things are not being done properly also here at all. We all must do the same effort to compulse our neighbours, politicians, etc,... to change of attitude, and this means we must be the first in changing our attitude,... that's what a highlander would do, in my opinion, as the idea of a highlander is somebody linked to his land and the nature that surrounds him, and with courage and determination enough to make things happen, or at least to fight for them, isn't it?

¡Salud!

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