As someone who likes nature and everything it offers and affords us, and who was fortunate enough to be born in a nation rich in both aqueous and wooded regions, I am often irritated by my fellow residents and compatriots.
Today, during a 10-kilometer-long walk, I remembered where the intolerance towards some people comes from. Imagine being surrounded by huge arable fields of wheat, where roe deer, foxes, rabbits, and the occasional badger walk freely.
The air is filled with the scent of snow, and you take a deep breath realizing you are the happiest person on earth.
Until...
A dump just a few kilometers from the village, one of a kind!
All the grain fields of Pannonia melted in my eyes, the frightening sight of a pile of garbage spread before my eyes. I did not expect this, and at least I did not believe it when they told me that such a thing existed. It's not that I haven't seen scenes like this before, I don't know if there's any point in mentioning that the country I live in is 0 aware of environmental protection, but that's why we have a specialized market with a huge ORGANIC sign.
Today, food is most often sold to people with the same magic word, organic, so let's take a look at that term and its meaning.
Therefore, organic production implies the non-use of pesticides, artificial fertilizers and chemicals, even tillage with machines is not used in organic production (because of the oil and other exhaust gases they generate). Now imagine when was the last time you saw oxen plowing the land or anyone hoeing by hand.
Yes, neither do I, particularly huge food manufacturers. But, in any case, is it possible to cultivate the land and produce organic food if the land has been poisoned?
Poisoned by years of decomposition of various waste and garbage.
Everything that is found on earth decomposes over time:
-plastic takes about a thousand years,
-aluminum from 80-200 years,
-leather 25-40 years,
-sanitary drains 500-800 years!
-styrofoam will never be excused, the list is too long, but the next time you go on a picnic, forget about styrofoam practical packaging.
There is nothing missing on the pile of garbage that I found, and where does it all go after something has perhaps been decomposed, then straight into the ground.
Which means that no matter how hard you try, organic production will not be possible in these plots, nor in a diameter of a few hundred meters.
One of the most typical phrases heard during this type of dispute is: I don't care, it's not in my yard. Yeah dummy, but it comes on your plate and you even don't know it.
This forest in the photo above is a place I visit regularly while shooting mushrooms, a place where big Siberian elms stand and offer great shade with their trunks, and it is only a few minutes' walk from the village itself.
And then they often ask me why you only photograph mushrooms and never pick them. Here's why.
This carpet of plastic is the result of the work of local people, who live right next to the forest.
Amazing isn't it? Right on the other side of the forest, work is going on, a building is being built where they can sit, probably have a few drinks, and maybe even eat something.
And no one cares that part of the forest is already under garbage, I rarely go inside because I don't want to step on garbage, it's very possible to run into a corroded wire or a stray needle.
To make the irony even bigger, there is also a children's playground.
And I caught this guy in the act of bringing waste with a tractor and shaking his trailer as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
Who should one turn to when the city administration has legally approved this form of dumping.
When I was younger, we had organized meetings and cleaning of our children's playground where we spent the entire summer school vacation. No one forced us to do it, we wanted to.
Today, younger generations don't even pay attention to where they throw their trash, the easiest thing to do is dump a juice can into the first ditch you pass. Moms and dads often do not react, because they think that the city cleaning service will pick up everything asap. Which means that each of us should have our own cleaning worker who will follow us closely and collect OUR trash.
I'm sorry, because we are blind and stupid.
We destroy absolutely everything with stupid actions without thinking about the consequences.
I thought for a long time whether to send these same recordings to the newsroom, whether anyone is dealing with it anymore or whether they continue to mind their own business.
Human stupidity is indestructible, and you cannot explain to a stupid man that he is stupid.
Please, the next time you go to throw away whatever it is, don't, be responsible for your own trash.
Make a small calculation in your head how long it will take to decompose and whether it will ever decompose, the most dangerous diseases come precisely from dirty environments.
Your little is actually a lot.
Playing devils advocate here but how about you bring a trash bag with you and pick up some of the stuff to dispose of it properly? I know you won’t be able to pick up those giant piles of stuff but you could certainly pick up the trash that you see in the forest like bags and other things that float in. I’m a big advocate for being the change you want to see and taking pictures of it is certainly a good thing to bring attention and awareness to it however we also have to participate in the improvement to make it so.
It’s never something we want but there does need to be dedicated land to eliminate waste like that so that it doesn’t pile up elsewhere. What the city should do is what many others do and build big dirt walls on the sides of it and then make it so that things won’t fly away from inside of it and get the trash all over the place.
There are a few companies that I know of that are creating types of worms and other bugs that will eat and decompose the plastics like this which is good. I look forward to the day that it gets to the different parts of the planet to clean this junk up!
I did the similar thing recently around here, all fine.:)
Here's why that's not a good idea.
I've got that answer few days ago, which made me reconsider doing what you proposed. Responsibility, I am one, those who bring garbage every day are more numerous. So it's not my trash, it's not my duty to go after adults and clean up after them (I can after children ;) until they learn), I don't see any effect in a 1:100 fight except to turn out to be a fool par excellence.
Unfortunately, the community wouldn't appreciate it, and that's the biggest problem because if I knew that more garbage wouldn't be dumped there, I would organize a team (as there are people who would join).
And the biggest problem of all the problems is that the state itself is not interested in the excessive preservation of ecology, my country is really beautiful, a real gem of nature, but as far as people have reached, nature has been polluted, many birds have left their former inhabitants, you understand what I'm talking about. . the list goes on and on.
Ugh. I hear you. And I know of a "superhero" we can call that will fix it all up except I think he retired or possibly died of alcohol and/or subaru exhaust poisoning.
p.s. I have never littered on purpose. Even when I was a grody smoker I carried my smelly ass butts with me until I found a proper receptacle where they could be appropriately dumped into a sanctioned preapocalyptic trash heap.
p.p.s. the humans make way too much packaging.
Alcohol couldn't kill me. Neither could YMF's poisonous fumes, despite my many experiments with hoses duct-taped to his exhaust pipe. What actually killed me was a laughter overdose. I was making a campfire one night and when I went to rip out some pages of the Gideon Bible I've been using for tinder ever since I stole it from a motel in Kentucky, I found myself staring at the book of Ecclesiastes, and after the second verse I just fucking lost it. The overwhelming sense of misery and suffering cracked me up, and it had me laughing so hard that my respiratory system went into full of arrest and I died. Good news, though: hell is a fucking rager of a party. And nobody down here litters.
P.S. Points for using the word grody.
Misery is pretty hilarious in hindsight, I agree.
Good to read your words again!
See you in hell.
P.S. How many points?
Six hundred and sixty-six.
Isn't that the number of the beast?
OOooo should I call it? Is that how we get ahold of you these days?
666 is Satan's number. I don't have a phone. Best way to get ahold of me is to just litter. I should arrive within the next few decades to clean it up.
LOL!
Guess we won't be keeping in touch...
They left me speachless, I thought people from my region are jerks, apparently here are bigger.
For stinky butts I always have tissue to tuck them in until I get home.
Once my car was kissed by can as some smarty pants throw it out on highway, that could end up nasty.
Someone gave us brains, someone should give us manual with it.
Have to be smart enough to read the manual, though... 'Round these parts our education system just keeps getting worse and worse (along with our health care and housing costs and employment rates etc.) and there is a DIRECT correlation between this and the amount of garbage piling up in the streets and lots and parks.
Hope I didn't make you feel bad about having stinky butts. ;)
No more excuses, they can use AI now!
Thanks for saying this out loud!
Hope i didn't sound like I'm explaining myself.:)
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