The slogan "what's so non-conservative about conservation" has been a concern-troll at least since Trudeau mooted it in the middle 1990s, there targeting the Gingrich House. Although if you spend much time thinking about life off Earth, you get to some sympathy with the sentiment.
It is turning out currently that our raw materials are getting so cheap that conservation is becoming a money-loser. Tierney over at Instapundit's blog notes that the NYT (no less) was saying "recycling is garbage" in, yes, 1996.
The answer is to research ways to make recycling work, and not just as another smarmy signal of personal virtue against one's neighbours. Until then we're going to need to make landfills work.
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