Excess waste is like a person who eats too much; who eats more than they need to survive and then when that excess is no used it collects as fat. If you continue to eat more than you need the fat in your body collects and collects. Eventually the body cannot handle it anymore and organs will begin to not work properly. Arteries will clog and the desire for physical activity will diminish. Consuming more than you need leads to excess waste. And excess waste is never a good thing.
I have separated excess waste and greed because although they are related, they are two different terms and can infer two different meanings. Greed is a desire for more and more and getting it by any means necessary. Greed is like a weed. It might start as a small desire that grows and grows. It finds it's way to water or sunshine, what ever it needs and it doesn't care about the plants it might kill on the way. It is usually much uglier than the plants it kills. Although there are some weeds that can disguise themselves as flowers. It will even go as far to strangle plants and grown on them and use them for their benefits, despite the fact they could very well kill the exact thing that's helping them survive. in that case, they will move on to the next.
I liked how you compared greed to a weed. It does begin to spread once it is exposed to what it wants. A weed grows once it is exposed to the sun and nutrients it needs to prosper. Our greed grows once it gets a taste of what money is like and wants to obtain more.
ReplyDeleteI like the way you relate greed to a fat that collects and clogs arteries. I'm guessing you intended it to parallel how many Americans are obese from eating more than what they need. I do think that waste and greed are very connected though. Like your example are greed is leading to waste that is clogging the arteries of our country and we must learn to use our resources in moderation.
ReplyDeleteYour metaphors are awesome, I must say. They help iterate your point in a very complementary manner and are so detailed. It is interesting that you draw on over-eating as a form of greed as well because we know that this is another problem that plagues society. This is a great example. I feel is more people saw it that way and actually thought of waste as something that collects on their own bodies, they'd give a second thought to the body of our environment.
ReplyDeleteThe comparison of waste to fat and obesity was really good and also very relevant. The articel talked about overconsumption being a serious problem in our country and that thougth also extends to the overconsumption of food (about a third of our country is overweight!) Similarly like waste, fat is destructive, discrete and downright disgusting.
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