I doubt it'll get very far with this crowd, but my good friend from uni has been trying to drag me there for 15 fecking years. Every video and story I see feels super cringe. Am I missing anything?

  • disco [any]
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    4 years ago

    I’ve got to ask, can you talk more about your experience with this? Because I personally know a lot of people who are part of the cleanup crew for burning man every year and they are absolutely fanatical about the “leave no trace” stuff. The cleanup after the event lasts for a month after it ends.

    Unless they’re all lying to me I have a real hard time believing that they are leaving massive piles of trash behind. I’ve seen people get shit for years because they brought an outfit that shed glitter on the playa.

    Of course, you’re 100% spot on about the water usage. And don’t get me started on the CO2 emissions .

      • disco [any]
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        4 years ago

        If only all 70k people who attented thought like this

        I think this is the crux of the matter, right here. No matter what steps the org takes (and I don’t think they’re taking enough) 70k people are going to generate a lot of trash. To an extent, the fact that the BM org is trying to rely on the visitors to practice “leave no trace” is creating a situation where everyone packs their trash out of burning man, and then dumps it in places like Reno at the first opportunity, if it doesn’t just fall out of their pickup trucks or whatever.

        This lets people like my friends feel like they have successfully cleaned up the scene after the event, when the trash is really just elsewhere. Of course, I’m sure the people who run burning man know all of this, but still don’t want to spend the money needed to create some sort of waste management infrastructure that operates during the event.

        All in all, it seems perfect for a party that’s attended by people like Peter Thiel.

          • disco [any]
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            4 years ago

            Burning Mans’ trash issue is a structural problem not a volunteer one

            Damn, why do all the problems have to be large structural ones, that allow for such diffusion of responsibility? Shit sucks, lol. Anyway thanks for talking about this, I had no idea of the scale of the issue.