Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class (WALL-E)

(this started as a comment on Bethany's blog, but it just got longer and longer so I made it a post of my own.)

I have already come to terms with the fact that Tucson will become a neo Garden of Eden when the waters rise, and honestly I wouldn't leave here even if you paid me though I might consider moving to Colorado Springs. There is no doubt in my mind that the Earth will at least become like it is portrayed in Idiocracy and at the very worst we are only a few hundred years away from leaving Wall-E behind to clean up our mess.

The two main pollution problems are trash and air contamination. Of the two, we have more viable solutions to greatly reduce air polution. Here's a question I can't find an answer to: We can make solar panels. Yuma to Tucson rarely recieves rain or even clouds. WHY ARE THERE NO GIANT SOLAR PANEL FIELDS FROM YUMA TO TUCSON?!?!? To give credit, there has been a big push in Tucson for roof top solar panels (I guess the government will pay you like they pay the failing banks if you get your own solar panels.) Hybrid or electric cars would be nice too, and I guess some company is looking to build an electric car charging station in Casa Grande so electric cars can make it from Phoenix to Tucson. That would be nice. Electric and Hybrid cars would, in the sort term however, produce more trash and I'll be honest with you, I don't know what to do with it all.

Trash sucks. EVERYONE currently produces some amount of unrecycleable, unreusable unredusable trash. I really don't know what we are going to do with it all. We can't just bury it(or could we...) we can't just burn it(see pollution #1) we can't afford to put it in giant rockets and shoot it at the Sun(GREAT idea though...) I honestly feel overwhelmed when I try and think about how to solve this garbage situation. Here are a few thoughts I came up with before my brain turned to mush:
1. Have the government open giant recycle factories in every major city. The main job of these factories would be to go through the current landfills and find any and everything that can be recycled. There is over 200 years worth of trash in these landfills, and I bet that if it is all properly sorted, the amount of non-recycleable, non-reusable trash would actually be alot less than the current size of our dumps. Think of the jobs this would create, think of the extra resources that could come out of a dump!

1a. Charge MUCH larger trash taxes based on the WEIGHT of your dumpster. This will pay for the recycling centers, AND encourage people to make less trash. I think 1 and 1a are genius ideas.

2. Nuke the trash. Ok, this idea is a work in progress. I don't think irradiating the planet will help, so maybe we build giant rockets, fill them with trash and a bomb, send them to space and set them off. Cheaper than shooting them to the Sun, AND think of the cool fireworks show in space. (note: idea #2 is not endorsed by me or anyone else who has a proper head on thier shoulders)

(Edit: After posting this I told my wife all that I had said and after metioning this idea she thought it was terrible because setting off bombs in space would piss off the aliens. Man, I love her.)

Well, all this talk of trash has made me hungry, so I think Ill end it here. Who knew that I had such opinions... I did, thats who. I was going to post a lengthy blog on how I think TUSD is shooting themselves in the foot and then taking a great big dump on it, but I'll save that for later I guess.

Money can't buy knives...

I was going to post something deep and thoughtful, but my back and neck are so sore from throwing a baseball with my wife that I just want to lie down. I'll come up with something soon, do you worry.

AAAAAAAAAAAND We're back!

Wow, two years between posts is a long time. I'm happy to say I am now married! AND I have 3 kids! AND that was a total lie! Haha, fooled you. But anyway, I am much happier than I use to be, and I hope to start posting more again since I finally reset my password. Deep thoughts to come, that I promise!