Huh! That picture looks like Detroit.... is that your back yard?

Personally, I value "green" initiatives whether they be reduce, reuse, reycle, or limiting pollution, or protecting nature, etc. But the fundamental flaw every time someone refers to homo sapiens as destroying the earth is that we're just another animal adapting our surroundings to what we think we need. If locusts strip a valley that's just nature, but if humans do it then we're destroying nature. If an invasive fish species like the snakehead kills off indigenous species that's unfortunate and we try to stop it but it's still just nature, but if human fisherman kill the indigenous species then we're destroying nature. Ants and termites dig and build homes but if we dig and build our homes we're destroying nature. And on and on. We're just another animal. Finding our aluminum can on the seashore technically isn't all that different than finding a shell a dead sea creature left behind, yet ours is trash and theirs is a beautiful shell.

I don't want humans to destroy the planet. But the act of living is not de facto the act of destroying the earth. It's just living. We can live wiser, just the same as a beaver should plan its dam wisely, but it's naive to think every beaver is going to make the best choice and likewise it's naive to think every act of mankind is a malicious selfish destruction of the world.

I have been on many lakes around the country spent 4 1/2 years on the ocean but there is one thing i can tell you i have never seen any of that trash in any body of water i was on.

We gave the Earth plastic. That's why we are here. We are here to give the Earth plastic and then go away.

I'm kind of on both sides because we were made to live on this planet, not to help it or destroy it. I believe as one of the many creatures we are on Earth, no animal is powerful enough to destroy a planet. You may see tons of trash everywhere. It might take a long time to decompose, but it still decomposes. So is it a bad thing?