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An End-of-the-pipe solution is remediation that happens after a problem has occurred. It’s comparable to putting a band-aid on a cut. Many environmental solutions have occurred after a negative outcome has arisen, rather than taking a precautionary approach and limiting the negative effects before they occur. An end-of-the-pipe solution usually requires little change to the western society. An example of an end-of-of-the-pipe solution is filtering the pollution made from oil. This "solution" does not change the input of oil, and therefore its' extraction from the earth, it simply reduces some of the pollution it creates. On a larger scale, nuclear power and various other forms of alternative energy can be viewed as end-of-the-pipe solutions to oil depletion. These solutions come as the result of the overuse and pollution of the oil resource (before oil-coal). The alternatives do not reduce the economy’s resource inputs- oil continues to be manufactured (until it runs out) and the change to alternative energy will only occur when it is mandatory. This means that people do not have to immediately deal with change; the change is a slow progress so that social relations and lifestyles are minimally altered, people (in the rich countries) are able to continue their consumption patterns with relatively little responsibility. End-of-the-pipe solutions can be eliminated only if we as a society demand for more [|precautionary approaches]and choose to change our lifestyles to better co-adapt within the environment. End-of-the-pipe solutions provide temporary solutions to a problem, therefore the original problem will persist. An example of an original problem would be consumption patterns of rich countries, with oil consumption being one of several consumption patterns that pollute and contribute to environmental degradation. The issue of oil would be addressed and altered to something that would mimic the use of oil, rather than the societal problem of consumption itself.
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