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		marky1991 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: French villages have no more drinking water. The r... Why? Are you saying we should only do waste reduction if it's expensive? "Should" here is doing a lot of work, it makes the argument circular imo.

arbitrary_name 3 months ago [–]

We should only do waste reduction if it doesn't result in wide scale poisoning of aquifers and biomes. Does that sound more agreeable?

marky1991 3 months ago | [–]

Yeah, that position makes sense.

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