RR06

It's really sad and disgusting to think about how much waste we as humans produce. Really it's kind of embarrassing. For so long we have taken advantage of nature and created things only for our own benefit, not taking into account what we might be doing to the rest of the natural world. Recently we have started to realize how much damage we have caused and we see that something needs to be done to change things. In the book they talk about how it's not enough to just be "less bad", but instead we need to recreate how we do things. We need to look more at nature and the animals and take cues from them on how to be more environmentally conscious. I liked the example of the ants. Everything they do benefits not only themselves, but also things around them. There are many many more of them than us, but comparatively we create so much more waste. I agree with what they say about how we don't need to move backwards to a time without technology, but instead we need to use our technological advances to create better, less damaging products.