Chapter Two

Chapter 2. (Garbology)

Humes' is really trying to get somewhere with letting us know about the masses of trash we just have laying around the world and I could really tell you that this is getting very interesting. He brings up some very good points and questions that left me thinking "well, what do we really do about it now?" Do we just give up because this is already very bad? Little did I know, that the Greeks actually had the same problem 2500 years ago, but they were actually a lot worse. They created the first municipal dump in history in attempt to reduce the amount of trash they had in the streets. Some of the cities would live in their trash and some would dump it down to the sewage. I guess figuring out what do to with our trash has been a problem ever since. Who would have known? In this chapter, he tells us about the early twentieth century New York. The place that we see today with pretty lights everywhere and celebrities taking over such a beautiful city has not always been so "pretty". Back then, they would have their pigs take the trash that they wanted to get rid of and it eventually made them all very sick. Obviously! There were all kinds of different diseases going around that finally led them to wake up a little, yet some STILL didn't care. Oh, America! That doesn't even surprise me because people of today don't seem to care either. It wasn't until they actually had to make an army of people called the "White wings" to come and force sanitation on the city that people started taking out their trash. It worked for a little but lets be real, these people complained and eventually contiued to throw their trash out the window. Seems like his plan didn't really work for him!