I'm not know for my deeply moving thoughts around here, but I thought I might mention this fleeting thought,
I'm from the US; I've noticed we're a primary consumer of both biodegradable and non biodegradable goods. A great deal of both wind up in our landfills.
When the time comes, these trash heaps will become a resource for reclamation processes, wouldn't it stand to reason that those stock piles of garbage be larger than any other in the world?
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Yes it would but sometimes it becomes the the ground on which schools or playgrounds or communities are built on. A great deal of it went into the ocean for a while.Not sure if that is still a practice. Some of it now gets sent to other countries depending on if it may be of some use in reclaiming the materials.
You should wonder more about how long this nation would survive if it had to supply all it's own goods and materials. Third world countries do not have the same regulations when it comes to manufacturing or labor laws with minimum standards all of which drove manufacturing jobs over seas to where they could rape another culture. What a different landscape it would be if no one would be willing to sell their health their water supply and their people into pointless servitude with end result of death. Without other people willing to be tarded what would we all do?
How could the US possibly survive when it consumes more of everything then it posses itself. All for a pocket full of wooden nickles which have no value except to those who believe it is worth trading for. I feel sorry for those who have placed such a low value on their lives and the lives of their children. That is unfortunately the nature of free will.