To fully see this post and all of the images, read it here: https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1460-c0bc-57b3-313281906726Plastic pollution is one of the many problems created by this trade-based society. It is an enormous issue, alongside climate change, waste, air pollution, loss of biodiversity, human slavery, environmental destruction, inequality, and so forth.
Here's how simple it is to understand how these problems are created:
1. Human beings reflect their upbringing (the environment they grow in).
From the way they walk and talk, to what they like or hate, these are values humans pick from their environment.
2. Our environment is based on trade. Jobs, currency, the many products created, supermarkets, online premium accounts, data collection, ads, social credits, and so forth. It is a "give this to me, to give that to you" society.
This trade society gives rise to an endless circle of creating as many things as possible and selling them to others. A circle of extreme and infinite consumption that makes people only chase their own gains (profits).
So then you end up with a bunch of idiot consumers whose minds are filled with ads and "how and what to trade".

And they will create a pile of destruction in their way.

That eventually will trash their lives and this planet.

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Unless we understand this, nothing will change. We have to move away from a trade-based society. How about starting to provide trade-free goods/services to people? How about starting with their basic needs? This is a discussion that is not happening anywhere. So we need to be vocal about it. #tromimg
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in reply to Tio • • •@Tio moving flat? I am also doing several GB twice a day... only have 100MBit/s now, but will also move this year and there I will have fiber with a max of 1 GBit/s.
Looking forward to that too, but even more important is the upload speed. Here it is always asynchronous, nobody knows why, but it is.... currently I got 40MBit/s upload. The backup just needs a bit longer to arrive at home with the 100MBit/s, but if you need to restore some data in case of a crash it takes forever to restore with 40 MBit/s. But online storage servers are also expensive, so I gonna stick with the NAS at home.
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