I’m sure I’ll eventually have to move this to the PROCT forum but, in the meantime:
http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7%20size=2%20width="100%25"%20align=center
It is a sad, messed up world we live in…
Whoah!
pastorkeith
Great art.
Sobering messages.
Americans only dispose of two kinds of cell phone, it seems.
Wow! 
Nicely done! But is the world paying any more attention to the message?
Astonishing images.
Effective.
Alarming.
Thanks.
Who had the patience to stack all that stuff up? 
Seriously, amazing, eye-opening images
Enjoyable. I liked the shipping containers.
Many of the problems alluded to by the images are less about stupid human choices and more about the impact of population and how we haven’t worked out just how to manage it…yet. maybe.
Some are stupid human choices.
32,000 breast enhancements a month. This doesn’t surprise me. The pressure for women (and even young girls) to use their bodies to attract men is intense–and incredibly destructive. On a side note to that, an interesting editorial printed in the local paper about the prevalence of misogyny today:
http://www.sltrib.com//ci_7979180?IADID=Search-www.sltrib.com-www.sltrib.com
Susan
hi, ho, hi ho,
to the poli board we go
At the risk of pushing this to the proctology forum, the images are indeed about stupid human choices. The choice to even create a “disposable” society to begin with.
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Plastic-Plastic-Everywhere-Algalita.htm
“In some areas of the North Pacific Central Gyre, a unique ecosystem, there is more plastic present than biological life.”
Strange, I am usually able to get those magic eye things.
I wouldn’t attempt to defend the overuse of plastics as a reasonable choice by a long shot. What I meant was that many choices were made for varying reasons of progress and convenience without understanding of the longterm implications. Plastic bottled beverages for example. Obviously this “convenience” requires major rethinking, but the initial launch of the idea was not based purely on stupidity, whereas I would say that…the huge growth of the tobacco industry, for example, is. Well, actually it’s based on more than stupidity. Well, now that I mention it…tobacco was not originally promoted with a clear understanding of its long term implications either…here I go, arguing myself into a corner. But it seems to fall a bit more cleanly into the stupid camp, whereas bottles were designed for convenience.
Nevermind…I’m just pixeling out loud…there is much, obviously, to reconsider about the way our species does things.
I am usually not!
This is can be viewed as art but also as propaganda.
As the latter it is unreliable. One needs, with several
of these things, to know how much is being recycled.
What would the alternatives be, e.g. to plastic bags.
How are the actual benefits along with the costs,
e.g. how many lives did guns save in 2004 (arguably
many more than they took, e.g. allegedly they were
used 1.5 million times in repelling crimes). The total
percentage of women in the population getting breast augmentation?
Might be pretty small.
If you thump on most anything in a very large country,
ignoring the scale (which is ironic here) and the
context and the benefits, you can create the impression
that something is terribly out of whack. And maybe
it is. But THIS isnt’ the way to determine that.
I bring my own canvas bag to the store. I drink water out of a glass. I use a refillable container when I go hiking. I use a ceramic coffee cup at work. I try (but fail too often) to bring my own cup when I go out for coffee. I wash and reuse all the plastic bags I can. Those zip-loc ones especially last for a very long time.
There is no such thing as recycling plastic. They call it that, but it’s a single re-use. Recycling means it becomes again what it was before. A glass bottle becomes a glass bottle becomes another glass bottle. When plastic is recycled it is turned into something it wasn’t before, and that something is usually not recyclable. It’s a one-step delay to the landfill.
There is a bag-2-bag program, however, that does show promise as being closer to true recycling.
Sorry for my soapbox. 
But plastic alarms me greatly. I’ve been to India. I ride my bike to work and see India-like conditions along the way, even here in beautiful Santa Barbara.
http://m3.torispics.com/piles/?s=315billiondollars
Another depiction of scale. FYI.
A friend of mine said this the other day:
“You know the world is messed up when it’s easier to pump oil out of the ground in the Middle East and press it in the shape of a spoon every time you want to eat a bowl of cereal than it is to just wash the metal ones you have in your drawer.”