If you have ever seen the movie Wall E, you have suffered at least slight fear that the age of waste covering the entire earth would be in your lifetime. Although we might not be able to fly off to space and leave the little cute Wall Es to clean up our mess. This is an ever pertinent fear for every one. Some, even in communities near Tabor, are taking positive measures to prevent this fear from being fulfilled.
Current Danehy Park in Cambridge MA used to be a landfill. In 1970 the Cambridge based Camp Dresser and others decided to turn the dump into a recreation park for the public. By 1990 the park was complete with 3 softball fields, 3 soccer fields, a multi purpose grass area, and tons of paths to walk, jog and bike on. This shows you how one area that is a huge eye sore and not being used for anything but rotting trash, can be turned into a gorgeous park.
Only if more people could see what was done here and learn something from it. Even thought it looks nice now the park is still sitting on 4 to 40 feet of trash in some areas. The issues is not fixed by us painting it over with grass and paving it with sparkling paths (they actually sparkle i think they have bits of glass in the pavement). We need to see what we are doing to ourselves before we get to the point of Wall Es waste covered earth.
So many movies now adays show us where we are going to end up. Yet all we see are the star studded casts or the cool effects. Instead of walking out of Avatar, squeeling about how cool the 3D is or the amount of money it cast to make, take a look at the plot line. Humans completely trash their home planet to the point of being unable to live on. They try to move and take the resources of another, to destitute pandora as well. hmm does not sound to far off to me.
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When I saw Wall-E, I was relieved the stacks of garbage piled up like skyscrapers in the opening shots weren’t actually real. And while thankfully, our situation isn’t as bad as it is in that movie, it could be someday if we don’t really start changing what we do with our trash. I’ve never been to a landfill, but even just seeing them on TV grosses me out. I know that if I were ever to actually visit one, I would feel a surge of guilt, as I, like most others, am a contributor to the problem. It’s easy to throw trash away, but it’s hard to get rid of it from a landfill, a giant garbage can. It was great to hear about the park in Cambridge, and to know that something good can come from something so gross. The whole idea of landfills really needs to be rethought, and making something good come from them is definitely a step in the right direction.