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the art of throwing away tomorrow because today felt infinite.
means the habit or quality of using resources carelessly, consuming or discarding far more than needed.
from From "waste," which entered English through Anglo-Norman "wast" and Old French "waster" (to ruin, squander), themselves rooted in Latin "vastare" (to lay waste, devastate) and "vastus" (empty, desolate, vast) — a cousin, fittingly, of the word "vast." To the "-ful" of fullness and the "-ness" of a state was added the whole — literally a state full of laying waste, the emptiness that comes from treating plenty as endless.
- food trashed
- a third of all food produced is never eaten
- hidden cost
- wasted food rotting fuels 8% of global emissions
- clothing graves
- a garbage truck of textiles dumped every second
- water leak
- discarded food wastes a quarter of farming's water
- planned demise
- products engineered to fail keep landfills hungry
palace of versailles — louis xiv's 700-room palace with 1,300 fountains consuming enormous resources in 17th century france
american food waste — 40% of us food supply discarded annually while 42 million americans face food insecurity
fast fashion industry — 92 million tons of textile waste generated yearly, with garments worn only 7-10 times before disposal