That was put up by Greg’s groomsmen, i will lay odds.
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Or maliciously put up by Greg who happens to be the creepy guy who plans on objecting to the union.
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Waste, by its nature, is a problem continually deferred. Where it goes is, at best, an afterthought, and likely not a pleasant one. We may dutifully sort and recycle our trash, but we are otherwise powerless to control the destiny of the detritus in our modern lives. Packard saw rampant consumerism as creating a “‘throwaway society,’ where material goods are treated as disposable and people are encouraged to waste as a sign of prosperity.”
In Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash, the journalist Alexander Clapp examines how so much of the junk produced in the Western Hemisphere has become a problem for the world’s most impoverished and economically desperate countries. Through stories of toxic e-waste in Ghana, illegal dumps in Turkey, deadly shipbreakers in the Aegean Sea, plastic-sludge riverbanks in Guatemala, and trash chiefs in Indonesia, Clapp exposes a global waste economy underpinned by exploitative labor and environmental degradation. More than six decades after Packard warned of a nation conditioned to consume and discard, Clapp’s reporting underscores that garbage is not just an intractable problem of modern capitalism but also an encapsulation of the global inequities that define our waste-filled world.
At the start of Waste Wars, Clapp quotes the American economist and retail analyst Victor Lebow, who asserted that productive economies and waste go hand in hand and that prosperity necessitates that “we need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever-increasing pace.”
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Notably, adult cats don’t meow to each other—that’s a vocalization reserved for people
They haven’t met my cats. Although most of them don’t do it a lot, but it does happen often enough. One of the neighborhood cats that decided to live on my deck meows a lot to the other one. He sometimes sits down on the ground while she sits up on the railing and he meows up a whole soliloquy up at her, so we named him Romeow.
The two older indoor cats will also meow at each other and the younger ones.
But the funniest is the one we call Baby (even though he’s not the youngest any more). When we’re all either upstairs, downstairs, or in my office, or some of us are gone, you can hear him walking around the kitchen, hallway, living room, bathroom, saying “Hewwo? Hewwo?” And then as soon as somebody walks in where he can see them, or he walks into the room they’re in, he gets happy and comes running over and plops down and rolls around. He really does not like waking up all alone. And he is not the brightest cat, but somehow he figured out the word “hello?” and just the right tone for it.
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Can’t be Australian. Sure it’s huge, but it’s not poisonous.
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My immediate reaction was: Australia? But of course.
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