Selfish, narrow-minded consumerism

Wake up from our wasteful culture nightmare…

My walk in woods near Hamilton reveals litter and plastic everywhere

We live in a throw away culture. We discard items all the time without thought of where it goes. We have accepted that human activity will always generate this damaging behaviour and its endemic in the culture of society that is more and more disconnected to the lands and the ecosystems we survive within.

My experience of walking in a local forest while trying to get some rare natural environmental exposure before another prolonged lockdown period being stuck mostly indoors highlighted the problem we have in society.

Center for International Environmental Law, beach waste

According to research by WWF the average person consumes 6g of plastic per week, which is the same as eating a credit card.

WWF: https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/plastic_ingestion_web_spreads.pdf

With the historically large consumption of goods we have already in the environment and pollution…