![]() ![]() The plastic my bacon came wrapped in gets thrown in a plastic trash bag that gets thrown in a landfill somewhere. It would seem bacon could just as easily come wrapped in a more biodegradeable packaging, like meat paper or something. This ‘hyper consumerism’ has resulted in a cycle that takes nutrients and resources out of the earth without putting them back in in a way they can be reasonably re-used (or re-assimilated) by the earth.įor some reason, while I was reading this book last Saturday afternoon, I kept thinking about the bacon I had just eaten and how it came wrapped in plastic packaging (but what doesn’t now). The machines of this ‘revolution’ suck in raw resources (lumber, steel, rubber, sand, gold, etc) and churn out products destined to be purchased (i.e., ‘consumed’) and then ultimately thrown away once the product has reached the end of it’s useful life. The advent of the Industrial Revolution brought with it generational cycles of ‘hyper consumerism’. Cradle to Cradle, pg 16 Combatting Hyper Consumerism Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. ![]()
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