The Climate Change war against plastics, symbolized by plastic recycling has been lost.   Plastic recycling is the archetypical Liberal solution to a problem; make everyone do busy work, make some people feel good and solve nothing.   “The vast majority of plastic that people put into recycling bins is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a  report  from Greenpeace on the state of plastic recycling in the U.S.   The report cites separate  data  published this May which revealed that  the amount of plastic actually turned into new things has fallen to new lows of around 5%. That number is expected to drop further as more plastic is produced.     Greenpeace found that no plastic — not even soda bottles, one of the most prolific items thrown into recycling bins — meets the threshold to be called "recyclable" according to  standards  set by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation New Plastic Economy Initiative. Plastic must have a re...

In 1992, the American Cold War warriors, after winning a war against the Soviet Union, which rivaled the Punic Wars in longevity, stood down. They were weary from wars in jungles, highlands, altiplanos, and back alleys, from doing dangerous and great things. So, like Lawrence of Arabia, they swapped their high wire lives for mundane joy, as a boatload of T.E. SHAWS (T.E. Shaw was the name used by Lawrence when he dropped off the grid of fame).    They left the victorious Republic as the most powerful political entity in recorded history; so powerful that credible historians thought society was at the end of History.   However, rather than bask in victory, the Liberal Elite decided to transform the Republic, through social engineering, into a multicultural, diverse democracy.   That Elitist transformation ran into a minor seminal problem: multicultural democracies are incapable of being governed as democracies. As John Stuart Mill noted in his tome, REPRESENTATIV...