Ok it's a stretch, but it goes something like this...
It's naive to think that by bagging up your trash every week and putting it out on your curb for collection, you're not contributing to the ecological destruction of our planet. And yet how many people stop and think about the effects of their consumption habits? There's no impetus for doing so because every week right on schedule the trucks come and haul the evidence away... out of sight, out of mind.
If everyone littered, everywhere, all the time, in our communities, we'd start to get a sense of the scope of how wasteful our consumption model is and be forced to confront it.
Sea these (pun) stories about where some of our debris is ending up:
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Date: 2010-03-26 02:05 pm (UTC)It's naive to think that by bagging up your trash every week and putting it out on your curb for collection, you're not contributing to the ecological destruction of our planet. And yet how many people stop and think about the effects of their consumption habits? There's no impetus for doing so because every week right on schedule the trucks come and haul the evidence away... out of sight, out of mind.
If everyone littered, everywhere, all the time, in our communities, we'd start to get a sense of the scope of how wasteful our consumption model is and be forced to confront it.
Sea these (pun) stories about where some of our debris is ending up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_debris
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/10-the-worlds-largest-dump/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100302-new-ocean-trash-garbage-patch/