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artermix's avatar

the landfill for me was the culture shock of the US…of A. It made me understand much later the mental state of a nation that rather cover their garbage instead than dealing with it. And I mean this in every possible way. Cover the problems, cover up everything. Where you put this? Under the ground of course. Cover it up. It was like a primitive mind, or an underdeveloped brain that could not think beyond “hiding” it. Landfill are more than just garbage under land. It is the brain of a nation who thinks problems are dealt with a cover on top of it. “If you do not see it then you do not have to deal with it” ….a family member once told me these words.

Eventually you will run out of places to cover it and hide it no?

You see it is the quick and dirty way to not dealing with problems. The acceptance of the people living this is very troubling.

Does anybody ask a politician running for any office position “how will you deal with waste disposal?“ . Their answer will tell you what type of person they are.

So now we are back in a circle to the recycling bullshit. You see I come from a country where there is not land field because there is no room to waste for one, and for two we usually deal with waste by seriously recycling. Not saying this is right….er or better…..just saying that in many parts of the world that does not have the luxury to freely rape the land with garbage fillers, we are literally forced to think how we are going to dispose of it.

Once, a long time I read a science fiction novel about a giant hole created from nothing where people begun throwing garbage because things just disappeared inside of it……kinda like a wish the garbage buriers have must be.

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one of my first posts here was :

The Incomprehensible Nature of Human Consumption, waste, recklessness, and overwhelming destruction.

Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers www.chrisjordan.com

His work shows the level of destruction by human consumption ARTISTICALLY, if that can be done. HIs work left me speechless. and depressed.

Are they covering it in land fills? only a little bit of it actually.

Most of it is right in front of our faces and we are blind to it.

Where I live they designed a huge regional park, took a year to dig out a lake. Next to the lake is the Wolf River which runs through our city into the mighty Mississippi. IN this beautiful park they built with the lake and smaller ponds, forest, fields and even Buffalo, They put a giant Land fill right next to the river. years later they realized ground water under the land fill was seeping into the river...

they didn't even hide the land fill in our town, no its right there in the huge park, and they even have a motor bike racing competition area right on top of the land fill.

https://karafree.substack.com/p/the-incomprehensible-nature-of-human

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