That bag of chips on the ground represents way more than the garbage you're specifically talking about. People tend to think about what's right in front of them

That bag of chips on the ground represents way more than the garbage you're specifically talking about. People tend to think about what's right in front of them. It's so minuscule. It's a comfort item, like your house. For it to exist there needs to be grocery stores. For that, there needs to be air conditioning. Otherwise the chips would be rancid from 100 degree heat, let alone the fact it would have been shipped to the "grocery store" on horseback, again making the cost very extreme. Every damn thing you have for comfort not only depended on cheap oil, it would be impossible for our civilization to even have the internet without it. You can't expect TCP engineers to work in tents right? We wouldn't even have the ability to order up a 9 yard concrete truck in 30 minutes. So yes, for that bag of chips to exist, literally cost trillions of dollars.