In a grocery store there are a wide variety of items, sorted into departments and then into aisles. There are a lot of things.
I was at Walmart the other day, looking around at things. There are these huge shelves stacked with tissues, window cleaner, cat food, coca-cola and so on, and in the center, close to the emoji pillows, was an arrangement of useless "outdoors" related items- e.g., chinese made blankets, air matress reverse vacuums, hot dog holders, etc. These items are fragile, made in China, of plastic, and will in all likelihood be put into a landfill less than ten years after purchase.
But there are thousands of Walmart stores, and to supply every store with a constant supply of worthless disposable items would require massive warehouses for each item. There must be dozens of warehouses and factories a thousand times larger than my house dedicated solely to the production of plastic sporks, napkins, folding chairs, keurig coffee cups, neck massagers, and so on, merely to keep up with the demand of Walmart shoppers.
This is what humanity is destroying the planet for. We are putting massive amounts of our natural recourses, our time and effort, into the creation of useless, transient, and hazardous items which serve no real purpose other than to be used unnecessarily and thrown into a landfill.
The scale and the wastefulness of it is overwhelming.
I was at Walmart the other day, looking around at things. There are these huge shelves stacked with tissues, window cleaner, cat food, coca-cola and so on, and in the center, close to the emoji pillows, was an arrangement of useless "outdoors" related items- e.g., chinese made blankets, air matress reverse vacuums, hot dog holders, etc. These items are fragile, made in China, of plastic, and will in all likelihood be put into a landfill less than ten years after purchase.
But there are thousands of Walmart stores, and to supply every store with a constant supply of worthless disposable items would require massive warehouses for each item. There must be dozens of warehouses and factories a thousand times larger than my house dedicated solely to the production of plastic sporks, napkins, folding chairs, keurig coffee cups, neck massagers, and so on, merely to keep up with the demand of Walmart shoppers.
This is what humanity is destroying the planet for. We are putting massive amounts of our natural recourses, our time and effort, into the creation of useless, transient, and hazardous items which serve no real purpose other than to be used unnecessarily and thrown into a landfill.
The scale and the wastefulness of it is overwhelming.
