America's+Wastefulness

media type="file" key="Jack Johnson - The 3 R's Lyrics.mp3" width="240" height="20" (Jack Johnson- 3r's) We like to think of ourselves as a nation of nature loving people:
 * Consumerism in America **



So while walking around, why do we still see this everywhere?




 * Americans are just like Tom and Daisy:**


 * "**They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."-The Great Gatsby

For Americans (who each throw away on average 4.5 pounds of garbage per day) it seems to be "out of sight, out of mind" and we let our garbage pile higher and higher...



But we are starting to drown in trash



= We need to change NOW! =

We need less of this:

And more of this:



Less of this: More this:

Well.... Maybe that's not the best solution, but it's start because we need to change our habits because we can't ignore on consumerism forever and let everyone clean up our mess. Eventually it'll catch up with this and America will turn into this:



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