Is the planet nothing more than an enormous waste bin?

Watching WALL-E was such a funny experience, not just because Pixar are fantastic in the business of animation but of the simple fact that they pictured the way we contaminate and litter the planet so perfectly, and Pixar probably wanted to shed light on this topic. The movie was like a beautiful glimpse into the future, a very believable future indeed. What else is earth becoming but a large fuse dump. Just take a look around you, as the snow is melting garbage are popping up faster than the crocus and coltsfoot. And that is just on the local scale.

Let’s take a wider look and where we dump shit:

We ship electric waste to Africa for recycling, but only 20% is usable, the rest is burned on open fields.
Ships are sent to India for chopping.
We got junk floating around the earth like an asteroid field. How are we even going to attack this problem?
And the sea is treated like a waste bin, like, “Out of sight, out of mind”.

We produce and waste. We consume like crazy. We treat the planet, our home, like it’s a hotel room we can fuck up, check out of and leave the cleaning for someone else. Have we forgot the fact that no one will come to clean up our mess? What do you teach your kids at home? To tidy up their room or do you do it for them? When the kids are moving out, do you go to their home to clean up their flat or do they have to take responsibility for their own filth?

When it comes to garbage we have to change the enormous consuming mentality, we have to make the most of our resources rather than dump and burn everything. Plastic, oil based products… some day, maybe not in fifty yrs, maybe not in a hundred yrs, but some day the resources will be all used up. The future generations will be the victim of our squandering. Hopefully our kids and grandchildren will find a way to change the death of a planet. Or at least the horrible buss we’re on will take a better turn.

A colleague said, when talking about the dumping problem: Can’t we just send it into space, if the universe is infinite won’t it be space enough to dump it in?
I said: Well, that’s the problem, the mentality of dumping. We must change that, ‘cause if we send all the junk into space we will throw away all our resources. We must recycle and take better care of what we got.

But what can I say, micro plastic is killing life in the sea. A flake of paint orbiting around the planet will make a pretty good dent in a space shuttle.
Nature is nothing more than a fridge with food moving around. We rearrange or kill whatever is in our way, may it be humans or animals.

We are a bunch of dirty bastards, the human race. All we can hope for is a revolution of the kind that will reprogram the very perception and values we have when it comes to our Mother, the planet earth.

http://www.aftenposten.no/fakta/innsikt/article3574592.ece