Our consumption in art pictures

[Da Skinna]

I saw this on Friday night as I was sipping my herbal tea and watching the PBS as usual and thought it was interesting.

Look at all the things we use, waste, utilize and toss in his photos.

Our minds are just not wired to be able to really comprehend and make meaning of and feel numbers that are that huge. And if the only way we're getting all of this information about these profoundly important phenomenon that are going on in our society is through statistics, then we aren't going to feel what we need to feel in order to make the radical changes we need to make.

Reminds you of Stalin's quote about the death of one man and then a million...

Here's some more:

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Cell Phones #2


Cigarette Butts


Crushed Cars


Junkyard


Found here:
http://www.chrisjordan.com/

So what do you think... are we ed or are we ed?

[Gromovnik]

I'd say we're ed...

[Dunecat]

Beautiful, isn't it?

[Jexiel]

Beautiful, isn't it?

Haha! This is exactly what most people are going to say and then move on. We react only when the problem hits us in the face.

[JP226]

How much money can I make by buying and selling scrap?

[justicar5]

How much money can I make by buying and selling scrap?

at the moment, not so much, when the demand for steel etc goes up, loads.

[Last Roman]

How much money can I make by buying and selling scrap?

spoken like a true capitalist

[Phier]

Am I suppose to feel bad?

[Dunecat]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ck-to-oil.html

A US company is taking plastics recycling to another level - turning them back into the oil they were made from, and gas.

Now what to do with the cigarette butts.

[Phier]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ck-to-oil.html



Now what to do with the cigarette butts.

Shove them down the throats of those who drop them on the sidewalks and roadways.

[Dunecat]

We could create a marketable substitute to filters that create only biodegradable waste.

Or we could legalize electronic cigarettes in the U.S.



Less harmful, with no smoke (instead vapor), can contain toxic to no levels of nicotine in the propylene glycol solution, creates only plastic waste and occasionally discarded rechargeable batteries.

Sure real cigarettes have a lower start-up cost but after a carton its more expensive, more deadly, more taboo...If the FDA would stop seizing shipments from China maybe we'd have a more prosperous and healthy America. With less waste that would not provide for photo ops of the Original Post.

(And the "waste" of junked cars? Perhaps if the government didn't encourage people to junk them a leftist would have more ground to stand on. )

[Hub'ite]

We could create a marketable substitute to filters that create only biodegradable waste.

Or we could legalize electronic cigarettes in the U.S.



Less harmful, with no smoke (instead vapor), can contain toxic to no levels of nicotine in the propylene glycol solution, creates only plastic waste and occasionally discarded rechargeable batteries.

Sure real cigarettes have a lower start-up cost but after a carton its more expensive, more deadly, more taboo...If the FDA would stop seizing shipments from China maybe we'd have a more prosperous and healthy America. With less waste that would not provide for photo ops of the Original Post.

(And the "waste" of junked cars? Perhaps if the government didn't encourage people to junk them a leftist would have more ground to stand on. )

E-cigarettes are legal, I just ordered some the other day.

[Nikos]

Am I suppose to feel bad?

This

[Henry of Grosmont]

So...

[Justice and Mercy]

I don't think I get the point here.

[Generaal Van Heutsz]

I always like this explanation of trillion (ie the currect US budget deficit) a trillion is beyond you ever imagined:

[Justice and Mercy]

I always like this explanation of trillion (ie the currect US budget deficit) a trillion is beyond you ever imagined:

Our debt is only one trillion dollars now?

[Generaal Van Heutsz]

Our debt is only one trillion dollars now?

* No, that's just this years US federal government debt, the actual debt is much bigger, it explained in the rest of the series, iirc it was something like 30 trillion



http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse

[Nick_Since_1985]

Look a pigeon...






Greetz

Nick

[Erik]

No, that's just this years US federal government debt

The word you were looking for is budget deficit.

Anyways,
Garbage looks good as long as it's all well sorted.
And when it's sorted, you can be pretty sure it won't just be burned or thrown in a landfill, but recycled. - why else would they go through all that trouble?