Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Greed/ Wastefulness
Human beings are lost in a mayhem snow globe of dropping problems, encased in themselves. As if each particle of plastic is slowly accumulating to a summation of Earthly problems. This planet is going to hell; literally considering the amount of people and the burning waste being produced. Nature is natural, that is the root meaning of the word afterall. Consistently, this society has neglected and diminished the imnportance of obtaining our extremely comfortable home her on Earth. An excessive comfort level, because the population is scrutinized for the lengthy and horrendous long-term effects that become predetermined once harmful pollution and the destruction of resources ensues. People have a history of acting upon their inventions or products without taking an instant to consider just how negatively the environment is being effected. The slimy, grimy, dirty, polluted waste that sits on our mountains, arades our skylines, burns our atmosphere, and suffocates our oceans is an issue and should be where mankind mans its battle stations.
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I really enjoyed your sentence about the "planet going to hell." You are right, it is quite literally going to hell. I also find it... ironic? I'm not sure if it's the word I'm looking for, but ironic that you would phrase it as "suffocates our oceans." I think I chose the word ironic because we can suffocate in a ocean because there is no air, but the fact that we are now suffocating our oceans is interesting to me.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with your statement about our comfort level here on Earth as human beings. It is very true that we don't take into consideration how what we do is effecting our surroundings. We feel like we are inferior beings and we tend to turn a blind eye to the consequences our actions are producing.
ReplyDeleteI especially like the metaphor for the "battle stations" at the end of the post becuase it shows how this a problem which we need to tackle. All of of our greed and waste is catching up with us and soon it is going to be too late for any kind of fix or even an attempt to curtail this problem. Sadly though Americans are the worst at wasting and being greedy, we take more than we need and jump dump the rest of it out somewhere that has no concern to us, but has a major effect on other people. The article about e-waste that we read in the beginning of the semester is one which understands this situation. Whenever we dispose of a computer, 9 times out of 10 it will end up in someone's backyard in a third world country and have countless negative effects on their lives.
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