Essay response

The photo that stood out to me was the fifth picture in the essay, where you see a stack of compacted vehicles that will now be good for nothing but to hopefully be scrapped and recycled. Junk, and a lot of it. It gives some frame of reference to what we are doing to our own environment and how it can be avoided. The photo makes me wonder how long the earth can sustain the species that is seemingly attempting to destroy it, us. The most powerful part of the writing from this caption, in my opinion is where the author says "the same commentary could be made about all sorts of other manufactured items, large and small- refrigerators, air conditioners, computer monitors, cell phones, rechargers, batteries, dirty diapers, plastic bags and bottles, to name a few
of millions. Add to this the accumulation of waste-
industrial, human and animal- all of which grows in
proportion to the humans whose own population
 explosion affects every aspect of the problem." This is a very effective bit of writing after looking at that picture because it illustrates the dilemma on a small scale- a single picture from a junk yard and then relates it to the large scale- land fills world wide. How long can this earth sustain us?
Nature gives us everything, even the things that are man made, technological advancements. The raw materials, components and concepts for those revolutionary ideas are all taken from the earth. This is powerful because we could not survive a single day without the resources from our natural environment, yet many of us make conscious decisions daily that are contributing to the destruction of our primary life source.