The Waste Of The Earth

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The stuff from factory productions to people’s trash accumulation is destroying the planet earth at an alarming rate. Meaning that people are stripping the earth of its natural resources to mass produce products which is bought by consumers only to be disposed of quickly and either dump in a landfill or burnt up in an incinerator while the government stands by encouraging it to happen even quicker. Therefore, the earth is not able to keep pace with the stripping of it natural resources and will not be able to sustain human life at the velocity today’s society is consuming. Under those circumstances, drastic measures from the government down to the average person will have to start living a new lifestyle to turn this mess around that people created in the first place. However, if the earth dies all civilization will go with it, since there is no other planet or spacecraft to live on that can support life long enough for the earth to rejuvenate. In order to fix the problem there are three main issues that will need to be addressed, which are the massive amount of extraction, uncontrollable consumption, and the government not working for the people that they are supposed to be working for.
The massive amount of extraction from the earth’s natural resources, which are forest, water, mountains and animals, at the current rate society is extracting them will eventually leave nothing left to extract. The areas where the more civilized people populate have used up their resources and in turn have started extracting resources from third world countries, causing them to move away from their homeland due to their depleting recourses. In all honestly, this is extremely unfair, for the simple reason that these people are just innocent ...

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... a bearing wasteland. Secondly, Uncontrollable consumption of today’s society of stuff that they don’t need is driving the need to make more stuff that people don’t need. Since, people are at the center of this mess; by only buying what they need, can reduce extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal. Thirdly, the government not working for the people they are supposed to be working for and catering to the corporations instead of the small people that need the government’s aid.
On the other hand, should be bringing the fight to these corporations by forcing them to build products that last, easily repairable and upgradable to regulate the amount of trash that ends up in landfills or incinerators. Drastic times calls for drastic measures, and if people still want to call earth their home, they will adapt to this new lifestyle.

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