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“Pride Destroyed the Park”, Washington Square Park After a Parade [video]

8 points by spodek 5y ago

spodek 5y ago
Here's the video in the post: https://youtu.be/-P0VcMekbO4 https://youtu.be/-P0VcMekbO4 and the beginning text: Following up my last video on what American culture is doing to what could be one of its jewels, here is a shorter, punchier view of Washington Square Park today. The quote, “Pride Destroyed the Park,” comes from a woman who stopped me while I was taking pictures to tell me the park had 10 times more garbage a few hours earlier. Several people told me so. You can see teams of people cleaning it, around 9:30am. It is not a sanitation issue. It is not just a parade issue. It doesn’t matter who was in the parade. You can make a difference. You need never buy bottled water, soda, takeout, or nearly any packaged food again in your life, starting this moment. [The post continues, with copies of the pictures in the video]
- maxerickson 5y ago
  So the park got cleaned up then?
  - spodek 5y ago
    Its average garbage level looks like the CO2 levels in the Scripps Observatory graph -- https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2_data_mlo.png https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2_data_mlo.png: seasonal ups and downs over a long-term increase. Meanwhile, did you see the image of the mountain of garbage in India? They didn't plan to make it. We don't either, but this is how they happen.
    - maxerickson 5y ago
      We have garbage hills all over the place. They are well managed landfills...
rdtwo 5y ago
I mean that’s normal for any big event. They pay a crew to clean it up. The money generated from the event pays for there cleaning not much different than a airbnb cleaning fee
- spodek 5y ago
  That was the case decades ago. Since then consumer culture has exploded the quantity of garbage and plastic has turned it from in principle biodegradable to lasting millennia and poisonous. Mountains of garbage like the ones in India didn't exist. Soon they will everywhere if we don't change our course.

8 points by spodek 5y ago

Here's the video in the post: https://youtu.be/-P0VcMekbO4 https://youtu.be/-P0VcMekbO4 and the beginning text: Following up my last video on what American culture is doing to what could be one of its jewels, here is a shorter, punchier view of Washington Square Park today. The quote, “Pride Destroyed the Park,” comes from a woman who stopped me while I was taking pictures to tell me the park had 10 times more garbage a few hours earlier. Several people told me so. You can see teams of people cleaning it, around 9:30am. It is not a sanitation issue. It is not just a parade issue. It doesn’t matter who was in the parade. You can make a difference. You need never buy bottled water, soda, takeout, or nearly any packaged food again in your life, starting this moment. [The post continues, with copies of the pictures in the video]

maxerickson 5y ago
So the park got cleaned up then?
- spodek 5y ago
  Its average garbage level looks like the CO2 levels in the Scripps Observatory graph -- https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2_data_mlo.png https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2_data_mlo.png: seasonal ups and downs over a long-term increase. Meanwhile, did you see the image of the mountain of garbage in India? They didn't plan to make it. We don't either, but this is how they happen.
  - maxerickson 5y ago
    We have garbage hills all over the place. They are well managed landfills...

rdtwo 5y ago

I mean that’s normal for any big event. They pay a crew to clean it up. The money generated from the event pays for there cleaning not much different than a airbnb cleaning fee

spodek 5y ago
That was the case decades ago. Since then consumer culture has exploded the quantity of garbage and plastic has turned it from in principle biodegradable to lasting millennia and poisonous. Mountains of garbage like the ones in India didn't exist. Soon they will everywhere if we don't change our course.