a horrid empire of plastic trash and toxic poisons. In
*Inserts Gorillaz Plastic Beach album
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valuation.
There’s duality in this statement that further elevates a point made earlier in the test: humans affirm and deny this understanding of planetary history.
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trash that will never break down.
This reminds me of an artist by the name of Vic Muniz. In his film Trash, we see the individuals who have to work the landfills of Brazil. It is labor that is once again an afterthought. In the film, each worker has a living room sized portrait made of them from the mountains of trash they work on.
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two and a half million years ago
Similar to Mckibben's use of imagery, I am baffled by these numbers. Comparing that number to the 22 years I have existed on Earth, I feel irrelevant, further questioning the validity of my own existence.
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Pachamama
Pachamama is Mother Earth to many indigenous peoples, so to see this name comforts me. It is a sign of recognition. It allows me to further put my trust in this author. More often than not, in environmentalism, indigenous peoples are cast aside, gawked at by peeping toms.
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Right now, the earth is full of refugees, human and not, without refuge.
I think about the people in Pakistan who are now displaced, what will become of the millions who lost their homes, their childhoods, their memories?
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cheap nature is at an end; cheapening nature cannot work much longer to sustain extraction and production in and of the contemporary world because most of the reserves of the earth have been drained, burned, depleted, poisoned, exterminated, and otherwise exhausted.3
This makes me think of those who are effected by cheapening nature. For example, the water contracting company in Jackson, Mississippi prioritized profit over health, leading to an unsustainable water source, left unmaintained for decades. A major flood broke the system leaving the residents with unsafe poisoned water. How inhumane is it to still force someone to pay for unclean water?
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