Others being wasteful
is no excuse for us to be as well.
Welcome to the Age of Plenty.
Odds are, if you’re reading this, you have the good fortune to participate in our current consumer age. Offering a proliferation of products and hitherto unknown convenience, this age offers cheap throw-away goods paired with ease of disposal. A winning combination!
Use a disposable razor a few times, toss it.
Get a cup of coffee on the way to work, drink the coffee, toss the cup.
Subscribe to a service that expresses a one-meal box with all necessary ingredients, fix dinner, toss the box, packaging for each ingredient, cold keepers, unused ingredients (now or later).
Give a child a toy, watch it break, toss the toy, buy another.
Modern convenience.
Easy to get. (Think Amazon).
Easy to toss. (Think curbside trash pickup.)
What else is disposed of? Money. Good fortune. Finite resources. Any real sense of appreciation. The happiness of those doomed to follow the most wasteful generation of all time.