I was watching the documentary “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” on Netflix and heard this comment when discussing waste generated from consumerism.
It made me realize, yes we don’t throw garbage “away” because away doesn’t exist … we just pass it on for someone else to deal with. Sometimes that next person might not deal with it right away but eventually someone has to deal with it.
True … there is no real problem for the planet … or the universe for that matter … everything comes and goes and appears and disappears eventually.
The problems are relative to our human species within our few thousand or millions of years of existence, which will probably be shortened because of wasteful habits.