I said to myself, 'Wow, this is a great business — and no one knows about it!' You are the major raw material for steelmaking, and you are sitting on top of the richest scrap resource in the world, right here in the U.S.A. — that's a great place to be.
But as people scrap for resources and stresses intensify, resentment is growing against the disabled, undermining any good things the government is doing in this area.
They should be scrapped and resources concentrated more productively elsewhere.That might seem a harsh conclusion, even a hasty one, given that the battle against terrorism is likely to be lengthy.
Deloitte, for one, made news recently when it announced it was scrapping "employee resource groups" (ERGs) for women and minorities in favor of "inclusion councils". Those councils comprise people who belong to many different categories, including white men.
The result is a widening caste system that can turn an airplane into a microcosm of "The Hunger Games". The elite bask in an airborne version of Panem, enjoying over-the-top frivolities distant from the tedium of normal life, while the masses scrap over scant resources, dreaming of revolution.
It can be observed that there is a great difference between these two strategies, while the classical methods need to suspend production, generate scrap, utilize extraordinary resources, equipment time, etcetera, the DSM is executed during normal production.
The benefits of going there are numerous: the scientific knowledge, the technological challenge, the potential for establishing a new branch of civilisation, and above all, the engagement of humankind in some kind of progressive, collective purpose, rather than a future scrapping over dwindling resources here on earth.
They were unceremoniously booted out of the league along with Western Suburbs, but unlike the Magpies didn't have the resources to scrap their way back in via the courts.
America's government, which had vowed to build a prototype plant called FutureGen in partnership with several big resources firms, scrapped the project last year after the projected cost rose to $1.8 billion.
And at the risk of losing her books' usual picturesque allure, Ms. See explains how peasants are encouraged to melt all scraps of metal when resources become scarce; how the fields are so ambitiously overplanted that crops cannot thrive; how crushed glass is plowed into the earth because it is a government-recommended nutrient.
