Earth Day 2010 - SM

I think Earth Day is kind of useless. I mean, sure, it gets people to care about the Earth . . . for a week or two. Within a month (or so) of Earth Day, people are back to not caring about the Earth. Even if people did keep caring about it, it wouldn't do any good. According to Derrick Jensen (see previous blog), the city's garbage is only three percent of the world's trash. It's the huge companies that produce most of the waste, but I doubt they're going to change. Pretty much the only solution is to stop buying things that those companies make, but that isn't going to happen, either. I really don't think the world is going to change how much waste it uses, for we are addicted to stuff, and we will probably never let that stuff go.