Humanity at its best
Yes we are a wasteful lot. Nature tries her hardest at recycling our homemade castoffs. Metal slowly rusts, but plastic never never returns to nature. So why dump a fridge, with all its plastic internals. Recycle it. Turn it into something useful. The plastic could be turned into building blocks, so creating homes, whilst the metal might become a missile. You think that I jest.
But nature never jests, she has warned us so many times. We leave our castoffs all around. Where they wait as traps for the unwary, even at the bottom of the ocean. …
Footnote:
At the present time I am slowly working though reams of paper covered with scribbling, how did I come to write so much.😉
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Who would have thought one of the results of a pandemic was people fly-tipping? We are a very selfish and thoughtless people.
I can never understand how anyone can drive out into the countryside and tip rubbish, I can only think anyone who fly tips must not feel part of humanity.
Dear Michael,
Truer words were never written. We are not good stewards of our planet, are we? Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you Rochelle, I guess that my thoughts on fly tipping have come across. Before the lock down I and my dog have on many days picked up cans and bottles that have on the main been thrown out of cars!
Nice green message in this – with a clever cynical rejoiner.
Thank you Antony, I guess that my thoughts on fly tipping have come across. Before the lock down, my dog and I have on to many days picked up cans and bottles that have in the main been thrown out of cars!
I think humans need to be more creative with their junk. So much can be up-cycled.
Thank you Tannille, I am all for creative in reusing junk, I guess that my thoughts on fly tipping have come across. Before the lock down I and my dog have on to many days picked up cans and bottles that have on the main been thrown out of cars!
Some people are gross. No need to dump rubbish on the side of the road.
I recently ordered some furniture. Some of it came with so much Styrofoam. I thought to myself, what a waste! I mean if you were to stack it and somehow weigh it down you could totally build a small shack if nothing else. For all the homeless people something like that could be a life saver in bad weather.
With creative Styrofoam can be recycled, but it is better by far not to use styrofoam, I can be a fire hazard
Good story, Michael. And yes, humans are awful beasts.
Only some hopefully. … I guess that my thoughts on fly tipping have come across. Before the lock down I and my dog have on many days picked up cans and bottles that have on the main been thrown out of cars!
Yes, we didn’t take good care of the gift with which we were blessed. So now nature is taking a hand…
Nature is a tremendous gift, I guess that my thoughts on fly tipping have come across. Before the lock down, I and my dog have on many days picked up cans and bottles that have on the main been thrown out of cars!
My first thought when seeing the photo was along the same lines, the environmental damage. We are a wasteful species…
Wasteful indeed, a clean and health environment is a great gift,
Let’s face it, we’re vermin of the worst sort.
I hope that it is only a few… who are uneducated as to the benefits that a unlettered and healthy environment means to maintaining good health
Nice message. I can think of better things to build with all that metal than missiles, though!
Me to, … the use of the term missiles was me being ironic
Thoughful piece, Mike and full of so much truth, but we never listen.
Hopefully after this nasty virus … more will now listen.
Why oh why? I wonder what it will take to drive home the message.
Here’s mine!
Hopefully after this nasty virus more will now think deeper about caring for our environment
You are right. We are a throw-away-species. True especially in America. Great story!
I am told off for not getting rid of old clothes, books, furniture etc etc. And I also enjoy repurposing items. But I am far from being green. yet I am a great fan of nature. Most of us are going to have to learn to recycle and recycle.
I hear you … about the Earth. About the scribbles, too. We write because we must, I think. For some of us it is like breathing. Perhaps not all breaths are memorable or need keeping, but they all of them happened for good reason at their time. Or we wouldn’t have made it to this time. … 😉
Well said Na’ama…I like what you say about the habit some like me have around scribbling.
Yep. From a fellow scribbler … 😉
We are a wasteful lot, and what for, to gain more junk? The inhabitants of this planet need to change. Living in a certain part of the world, that I won’t name, for a number of years, I watched appalled at significant amounts of toxic trash was dumped into the ocean. Without restraint. Oy, heavy sigh! Thanks for the thought-provoking piece, Michael.
Thank you Brenda…I believe if we wish to keep what we have now left, we do need to recycle ‘all’ waste, urgently.