Why Are We Killing Our Planet With So Much Junk?

If our planet could talk, it would be crying because it is ailing. Sadly, we are killing it with so many adverse practices.

We are generating too much waste. Plastics, tins and other packaging materials which are not degradable and cannot return to the soil to be used as nutrients.

Why are we creating problems that have no real solutions?

Why are we making much more than we really need? Why are we, the consumers obsessed with

buying much more than we need? By buying a lot, we encourage manufacturers to produce more to meet our demands and also create waste by discarding more. Producing more means more factory waste, more fumes into the atmosphere and other by products.

Why can’t we use reusable containers, cutlery, schoolbooks, etc.? There was a time this was the norm and nobody suffered for it?

Why can’t we learn to produce waste that can return to nature? What is wrong with baskets made from bamboo over plastic ones? Why use nylon to package when a leaf is better? We definitely need to find a way to use plant-based materials to package.

Smart countries have reduced their manufacturing sector, preferring to outsource and in the process, breathing better air, drinking better water while reducing noise and pollution.

We need to learn to listen to or world and care for it. It is definitely crying from pain and lack of care. Despite sustaining billions of living organisms, not up to a million give it a thought.

Our world needs love, attention and tender loving care. Let us learn to give back positively to it. We need to heal our world.