Only by seeing what we leave behind can we reflect

Recently we constantly hear that it is necessary to treat garbage somehow especially, to sort it, to use it less, more that and so on. But at the same time, on us from all sides rolls wild streams of advertising and every day, from all the information channels we hear one thing: the economy must develop, production must grow, and hence consumption – to grow and grow every day. Every day we have to consume more than the previous one. And leave behind only garbage. Different. Sorted, recycled, buried or even sent into space – but only garbage and nothing more. And what to do with it – is unclear. And most importantly, while we do not see it all, we are not particularly affected. There is no, of course, each of us wants to drink clean water and to landfills not was would have him here is recognized under Windows. The rest-well, what can you do. And the main thing everyone is sure that he produces garbage quite a bit. And then I came across the project "7 days of garbage." It was taken by American photographer Gregg Segal. He's from California, but strange as it may seem, I've never met him there. But never mind. He has been trying to do something in this direction for a long time. And then suddenly he asked different people to pose in the waste they produce in only 7 days and that at his request preserved carefully. And then I realized that I was so nailed: we can talk about the consumer society as much as we want, but we are already so firmly mired in it that we do not perceive ourselves as part of it and all our countless packages and wrappers as a threat. We do not understand and do not want to understand that electronics is dangerous, because it is not recycled - it accumulates and fonit. And we are changing gadgets more and more often. And all over the world, when we important guys broadcast something from the screens, I'm not sure that they even roughly represent what nature conservation is and what it should be protected from. Or rather from whom. I don't think anyone is going to do it. Ecology just becomes part of politics. And part of global economic regulation. Certification, for example. So I don't have much hope for the best. Well, you can use less trash, huh?