Gods country gone to hell and turned into a garbage pile in less than 200 years

[IMAUDIGGER]

Wow this thread got trashed!!


I'm Raging...
The best of the best in prison are...well..pretty scary people.
Hardly comparable to slaves. A little history study on slaves and prison populations would make that crystal clear.


$1.60 a day gets spent on bags on instant coffee, cigarettes, drugs that are used as payment for more crimes inside the prisons.

Most people in prison are there due to a cascade of mistakes, sometimes spanning a lifetime, usually as a result of drug addiction and childhood abuse and neglect.

 

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[A2coins]

I remember that commercial

 

[A2coins]

I do see whatyour saying its not the same today people are so self absorbed to care

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

I hate all the plastic trash too, but I sure do love a good bottle dump.

Those bottles are going to last for thousands of years too! Don't see too many complaining about those old bottles.

 

[Peyton Manning]

I recall a story about the military burning everything in big trash pits in Iraq, hazardous and all.
So you are responsible for some of it no matter how you try

 

[Tahts-a-dats-ago]

If this don’t bring a tear to your eye you are just as pathetic, in less than 200 years or so we have littered and trash this country to the point Of no return it’s embarrassing. Next time your detecting and dig , cans, pull tabs, and the rest of the massive mess, rivers, lands, oceans a dumping ground, now that a crime. Next time your digging and find garbage I hope it brings a tear to your eye like mine

I suppose I must be pathetic since the commercial cited doesn't bring a tear to my eye. Perhaps it is simply a matter of my inability to really respect a narrative that has been built upon false premises.

An actor (not actually an Indian) paid to portray an Indian who sheds a tear over the trash strewn areas he is riding through, but doesn't care enough to actually take action himself. As if that faked tear streaming down his face is really doing anything.

Did the camera crew arrive on location via horseback, or did they reach their destination by way of petroleum products and subsequent derivatives? Did the crew clean up the trash strewn area afterwards, and are they still using the same old tools used to create the celluloid in question? Or did they discard those tools of yesteryear and equip themselves with more modern tools?

Does the narrative spun move the commercial's participants (and/or subscribers) to forgo all manmade items that were derived from petroleum products? Have they disavowed modern medical advancements, transportation, shelter, packaging, food safety, and communications?

Did those participants take into consideration the vast amount of waste associated with the very medium they chose to use as the means of communicating the story line they concocted?

I'm not belittling the idea of not tossing trash all over the place, but I'm not about to shed a tear over some fictitious clip selling a false narrative and I'm not real keen on the idea that all who don't swallow the farce are somehow 'pathetic.'

Human history goes back much further than a mere 200 years - that includes the USA. I've been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to participate in an archeological dig (decades ago) that consisted of - digging through the trash left behind in a Pawnee encampment. Their trash proved to be of great help in determining how the Pawnee lived, the tools used, the storage containers used, etc.. All of it (their trash) was either discarded or lost (almost always the former).

Our own hobby (metal detecting) is really nothing more than us using tools (largely made out of petroleum products) to locate other people's trash. Some of that trash has value to us - things such as coins, jewelry, relics, etc.. Much of that trash does not have a value (to us) but it did have value at one time - someone either purchased the item or made it themselves. Truth be told, even that "valueless trash" has some value: it can be used to help us determine where the most likely prospects of finding wanted items will be.

In a way trash has helped me get (and keep) permission properties; by taking all the trash I find/dig and disposing of it properly, the owner is far more likely to grant me permission to hunt their property. Sure it's a bit of a hassle at times, but in doing so I gain permissions and the knowledge that I did a lot more than shed a fake tear in some silly commercial.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I don't think God limits himself to one country (or planet), but we have sure screwed up this one.

Just wait until all the folks in China and India want to live the excess consumerism that Americans have for two centuries. Tic . . . tic . . . tic.

 

[Megalodon]

Heartbreaking is seeing a dead whale or other marine mammal necropsied and seeing how they died full of plastic they mistook for food. The plastics are also breaking down into microscopic particles and being consumed by a wide variety of animals. Some trash, however, can become habitat. I rarely see a beer can in the water that does not have some life in or on it. Its unsightly, but not as bad as what we don't see - which can be much worse. When people hear that I'm a marine biologist, retired now, they often ask if the local fish, crabs, oysters, are safe to eat. I tell them to eat small, young fish that have not lived long enough to bio-accumulate toxins in their flesh. I toss back any striped bass over 30". Now I don't even fish for them in the summer months because the warming waters are too hot for them to survive after being released. For crabs, I tell them to avoid the hepatopancreas - also called the "mustard" by crab eaters, because it concentrates toxins. Oysters, and it pains me because i love them, should be cooked. Vibrio, also increasing in warming waters, can be deadly and eating raw oysters is a good way to become infected.

I'm getting tired of moving away from pollution. I left southeastern MA because the textile mills produced so much pollution and poured rivers of toxic dyes into the rivers I grew up loving. I left NJ because the mob dumped toxic waste all over and our well was contaminated by toxic industrial solvents. We recently moved again when a fracked gas refinery and export facility was built in our MD neighborhood and began to emit tons of carcinogens into the air with zero limits or monitoring. I'm tired of being forced from the places I love. It is time for us to fight back - for the love of our children and grandchildren.

 

[Hillbilly Prince]

man that is deep. even living out of my car i try to recycle every thing i can. but who knows ? what is actually taken and dumped in the ocean or a landfill. i guess the key is to reuse as many times u can which raises another issue ? these damn cigarette butts ? they say it takes a 100 years for them to breakdown in the environment. i dont smoke. but dang if that dont drive me nuts. i still have to look at them though. everybody else ruins it for me. WHY ? cuz ? i'm cursed ? or i dont have a good luck charm ? its as simple as this ? if u bring ur junk in. take it back out with u. yeah yeah thats the plan. k

Here's a lucky charm.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00VDPNSIM?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_image

 

[Bquamb]

The ad was a scapegoat nothing more... nothing less...

Exxon Mobile should have to put 1/2 of their NET into environmental cleanup - there is no excuse how theyre able to get away with murder. If you don't think it's murder take a good hard look at EVERYTHING, not just what you believe or see. Plastic is murder - nothing good about it. We use it in everything. Hell, this keyboard I type on is plastic... But Plastic as a whole should have been looked into MUCH further, but at the time that plastic was being massed, it was too late.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Curious as to why we don’t hear anything about Fukushima anymore, and the death of the Pacific?

 

[SD51]

Well, how about this concept? Let's store Canada's most dangerous nuclear waste along the shores of Lake Huron! Anybody think it's a good idea to risk contaminating one of the Great Lakes? Tell me what happens when this planet runs out of one of its natural resources like fresh water?

https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...-canada-radioactive-nuclear-waste/2622110001/

 

[BillA]

Wow this thread got trashed!!


I'm Raging...
The best of the best in prison are...well..pretty scary people.
Hardly comparable to slaves. A little history study on slaves and prison populations would make that crystal clear.


$1.60 a day gets spent on bags on instant coffee, cigarettes, drugs that are used as payment for more crimes inside the prisons.

Most people in prison are there due to a cascade of mistakes, sometimes spanning a lifetime, usually as a result of drug addiction and childhood abuse and neglect.

spoken like one who has never been in the joint, lots of different people in prison for lots of reasons
your generalizations are bull poop

 

[BillA]

Heartbreaking is seeing a dead whale or other marine mammal necropsied and seeing how they died full of plastic they mistook for food. The plastics are also breaking down into microscopic particles and being consumed by a wide variety of animals.
. . . .It is time for us to fight back - for the love of our children and grandchildren.

hey Mega, I hear you - but just how does an individual buck the system ?
the economic system ? (pop increase, growth, growth)
it will end poorly - but we think not in our day so we party on

I have no children, by conscious choice.
Any breeder is part of the problem (as I see it).
And, like you I have moved and moved to try to find a less obnoxious environment.

 

[BillA]

"Any breeder is part of the problem (as I see it)."

As in ? people who pop out lots of kids ?

I personally think people who have lots of kids are selfish...
with no long term consideration to others OR the kids they are bringing into an ever increasing competitively hard world.

and what about the parents of 'moderate' intelligence ?
are they hoping for a miracle that their child will be intelligent ?
this mud ball does not need more stupid people

 

[BillA]

I think people who receive government assistance should be required to take birth control as part of the deal.

and work - no exceptions (the poor work to live)

 

[ARC]

Posts deleted...

Besides... my posts had been edited and not the same as what was quoted.

 

[BillA]

it was recommended to me that I delete my posts relating to population . . .
kinda off topic, but pollution is quite tied to population

mods feel free to delete as req

 

[ARC]

it was recommended to me that I delete my posts relating to population . . .
kinda off topic, but pollution is quite tied to population

mods feel free to delete as req

Beings you replied / quoted my post prior to my editing and eventual deleting... tis moot.

 

[Bodkin]

Don't get me wrong, I do agree "we" have polluted and messed up most of this world. Gotta wonder though... if we didn't do that would this website even exist?