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Originally Posted by cdn2wheeler 
My environmentally-conscious friend said that, in her view, SR had the potential to be extraordinarily damaging to the environment. She explained that if we use a lot of fossil fuels (eg: gasoline) and throw a lot of stuff away, once the fuel is burned and the stuff is thrown out it ceases to exist in our minds and we don't give it another thought. But the green house gas (GHG) emissions and stuff that's thrown out pollutes the shared SR, impacting the rest of the world to a detrimental effect. It may not be in our consciousness anymore, but it still exists in shared SR.
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I think all the trash we toss doesn't leave our consciousness at all. Everything we touch is part of our world forever, even in SR. Just because we put it somewhere else doesn't mean it's not part of our subjective reality anymore. The issue is that we become unconsious about these things, it's still part of us in a sub-conscious way, lurking in us. That's what I would have said back to her.