When I first got to China, I remember people in our car laughing at me trying to properly dispose of something. They just say,"This is China. Throw it out the window."
A manic and dirty city like Dhaka, even, was a beautiful trading port with tree lined canals just 100 years ago. Overpopulation, modernity and waste with nowhere to go has transformed it.
Plastic was a miracle material a century ago. Who knew it would come to this? Makes you wonder what we are doing now that will cause big problems 50 or 100 years down the line.
Exactly.
One doesn't have to be a Christian to understand the words, "
...for they know not what they do." But how long can ignorance be
"Forgiven"? When will there be a reckoning? Many are seeing that now, but the truth will only be revealed to those who are willing to listen.
Who likes garbage anyway, but it's a reality. Just like the kind of garbage that constantly needs to be dealt with in political threads, lol. ie. the former administration just
got tossed out the window, but the garbage rhetoric left behind remains.
For example, decisions to protect polluters over public health concerns had a toxic legacy, including:
- Placing heads in key EPA positions with close ties to the fossil fuel, coal and chemical industries. In fact, those heads who made a career of undermining the agencies effectiveness in the first place.
- Slashing funding for eco-friendly programs. In fact out of ever $10 the govenment spent, only 2 cents went to to the EPA. I actually thought people cared about their home, well they did, they voted!
- Ending the Clean Power Plan and dismantling common sense climate protections, not to mention pulling out of the Paris Accord etc.
Some of the extreme examples of what can only be labled as 'environmental terrorism' have been rectified, but many more still exist, and change will come slowly, but only if supported by the public
Fortunately, many Americans who used to take clean air and water for granted are finally waking up to the dangers, but I wouldn't call it 'woke', I'd call it common sense.