As someone who likes nature and everything it offers and affords us, and who was fortunate enough to be born in a nation rich in both aqueous and wooded regions, I am often irritated by my fellow residents and compatriots.
Today, during a 10-kilometer-long walk, I remembered where the intolerance towards some people comes from. Imagine being surrounded by huge arable fields of wheat, where roe deer, foxes, rabbits, and the occasional badger walk freely.
The air is filled with the scent of snow, and you take a deep breath realizing you are the happiest person on earth.
Until...
A dump just a few kilometers from the village, one of a kind!
All the grain fields of Pannonia melted in my eyes, the frightening sight of a pile of garbage spread before my eyes. I did not expect this, and at least I did not believe it when they told me that such a thing existed. It's not that I haven't seen scenes like this before, I don't know if there's any point in mentioning that the country I live in is 0 aware of environmental protection, but that's why we have a specialized market with a huge ORGANIC sign.
Today, food is most often sold to people with the same magic word, organic, so let's take a look at that term and its meaning.
Therefore, organic production implies the non-use of pesticides, artificial fertilizers and chemicals, even tillage with machines is not used in organic production (because of the oil and other exhaust gases they generate). Now imagine when was the last time you saw oxen plowing the land or anyone hoeing by hand.
Yes, neither do I, particularly huge food manufacturers. But, in any case, is it possible to cultivate the land and produce organic food if the land has been poisoned?
Poisoned by years of decomposition of various waste and garbage.
Everything that is found on earth decomposes over time:
-plastic takes about a thousand years,
-aluminum from 80-200 years,
-leather 25-40 years,
-sanitary drains 500-800 years!
-styrofoam will never be excused, the list is too long, but the next time you go on a picnic, forget about styrofoam practical packaging.
There is nothing missing on the pile of garbage that I found, and where does it all go after something has perhaps been decomposed, then straight into the ground.
Which means that no matter how hard you try, organic production will not be possible in these plots, nor in a diameter of a few hundred meters.
One of the most typical phrases heard during this type of dispute is: I don't care, it's not in my yard. Yeah dummy, but it comes on your plate and you even don't know it.
This forest in the photo above is a place I visit regularly while shooting mushrooms, a place where big Siberian elms stand and offer great shade with their trunks, and it is only a few minutes' walk from the village itself.
And then they often ask me why you only photograph mushrooms and never pick them. Here's why.
This carpet of plastic is the result of the work of local people, who live right next to the forest.
Amazing isn't it? Right on the other side of the forest, work is going on, a building is being built where they can sit, probably have a few drinks, and maybe even eat something.
And no one cares that part of the forest is already under garbage, I rarely go inside because I don't want to step on garbage, it's very possible to run into a corroded wire or a stray needle.
To make the irony even bigger, there is also a children's playground.
And I caught this guy in the act of bringing waste with a tractor and shaking his trailer as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
Who should one turn to when the city administration has legally approved this form of dumping.
When I was younger, we had organized meetings and cleaning of our children's playground where we spent the entire summer school vacation. No one forced us to do it, we wanted to.
Today, younger generations don't even pay attention to where they throw their trash, the easiest thing to do is dump a juice can into the first ditch you pass. Moms and dads often do not react, because they think that the city cleaning service will pick up everything asap. Which means that each of us should have our own cleaning worker who will follow us closely and collect OUR trash.
I'm sorry, because we are blind and stupid.
We destroy absolutely everything with stupid actions without thinking about the consequences.
I thought for a long time whether to send these same recordings to the newsroom, whether anyone is dealing with it anymore or whether they continue to mind their own business.
Please, the next time you go to throw away whatever it is, don't, be responsible for your own trash.
Make a small calculation in your head how long it will take to decompose and whether it will ever decompose, the most dangerous diseases come precisely from dirty environments.
Your little is actually a lot.
