>>1821966Well I'm a thinking man and I spend a lot of time outdoors.
I am very sure about
A. plastic waste piling up all over the goddamn place but especially in waterways. Even the amount of plastic that blows into our field.
B. air pollution, usually where the poor bastards make all the plastic junk and trash-metal.
C. climate change. I don't know if it's man made or even if it's preventable, but all overthe world I've spoken to native peoples, farmers and scientists alike and they all say the climate is slowly changing. Maybe it's a cycle- maybe it's a road to human extinction.
D. economic dependence, mainly for oil/plastic. Traditional craft was destroyed by more efficient mass industry, but that meant those industries are now reliant physically and economically on imported materials and often nobody in the local area can build or maintain them.
Over time this makes regions poorer, you end up working in a regional factory and paying someone in the city to invest, maintain, buy in and supply you.
For me those are enough reasons without going into further speculation.
Reduce, reuse, recycle are done on that order.
I'm always mad when I see people with expensive recycled goods they simply didn't need to begin with, or trying to recycle things like bottles they should just re-use.
Too many people also can't see the forest for the trees and won't support major improvements because they aren't perfect- their real objective is avoiding moral culpability.
