Friday, December 1, 2017

No. 217.1: EXTRA! Deep Do-Do

On average, Americans throw away their own body weight in trash every month.

WaPo: Drowning in garbage (Paywall)

Time to add this
to the terrorist list?

In a new twist on
obesity crisis:
our garbagey habits
rank us with ISIS.
(You wanna bet
the bigger threat?)
Just contemplate:
one month's trash equals weight.
We can't deny it.
It's time to diet.

The world throws away
three point five Mil.
tons a day
What have we tossed?
Paradise Lost?

Drowning in waste
we carry on
and order more garbage
from Amazon.
This saves fuel
but fuels paradoxes.
We save on gas
but generate boxes
which bring to a standstill
available landfill.

If Marie Antoinette
were here today,
looking about
she'd likely say,
“People are hungry,
people are starving?
They have no porridge?
Let them eat garbage!”

And, as before,
she'd haven't a clue.
In the U.S. Of A.
we already do.