... so I guess I hold off chucking all my garbage out the window of my moving vehicle until tomorrow.
Seriously though, why do people do this? I just can’t imagine the thought process that goes through someone’s mind in the preceding seconds before they send their empty McDonald’s cup sailing. It’s not even that these actions are terribly bad for the environment (in all reality, littering is very low on the totem poll), but it just looks terrible.
I agree that littering isn’t the world’s biggest pollution problem but I see it as an environmental litmus test showing how little the general public is willing to help the environment. Throwing away personal trash is literally the littlest thing one can do for the environment and this is still a problem. (In fact, just this morning I was taking out the trash and I picked up a few bottles and fast-food bags laying by the road.) This lack of effort is also troubling when one thinks about getting the public to conserve (energy, water, food). Conservation requires much more effort than littering.
To convert the blog comment “double play”, will science/technology save the world? Sure why not but people will probably just throw it out their window.