Gore and Garbage

Gore doesn't adequately address the issue of solid waste.
Joel Kovel in a critique of An Inconvenient Truth.

A word about solid waste. There is no doubt that the crisis would be worse if we did nothing about garbage, just as it would be worse if lead were still in gasoline. But the crisis already factors in these palliations, which set certain rates of ecosystem decay, slowing it to the extent we now see without altering the dynamics an iota. In the case of waste management, the large corporations who run the show provide another source of accumulation, exploitation of labour, criminality, and concentration--and another kind of industrial setting, the recycling plant.