thoughts of reason

What is the reason that we (as a society) have to be so wasteful? I have been getting more and more involved with the environmental problems that our planet is having. The more that I learn, the more reality looks so grim. We are living in a giant toxic trash can that we have created ourselves. Why? For convienience? Mostly. How can society have so many convieniences but yet be so lazy? With as much effort that has been put into making our lives "easier" for us, we should have a lot more time for SELF CARE. I encourage everyone to research plastic. There is so much about plastic that makes my heart hurt. My heart hurts for the shear pain of what we have been doing to our planet, ourselves and the many generations to come. There is a sybiotic relationship that happens in nature. Every relationship has a give and take. One creatures waste is another's life. There is nothing ever left over. When food and natural occuring death and decompostion happens, the breakdown becomes life giving back into the soil to feed the growth of the next stage of life. We have become accustomed to lavish abundances while creating so much toxic eccess waste. You can see it all around us. Look at the waste that is sitting in us and on our bodies. When you think about the wastefulness of plastic due to convienience, also realize that every piece of plastic that has ever been made is still sitting on this planet. It will not biodegrate. It is not part of that sybiotic relationship. It is toxic to ourselves, our planet and all the generations to come. I am making a concious effort to be mindful about my wastefulness. It is hard because we are all living in a state of convienience. And also know that there are many people out there (as you may be one of them) that are working hard to change the direction that we are currently heading. There will be less death from disease. We will eradicate cancer. There will be cleaner oceans. There will be cleaner air to breath. We will not become extinct. We are survivors. We will take the knowledge and power we have to make our lives and our childrens lives a better, healthier place...and it's convieniently the right time.