What is the opposite of pollution? Loving your neighbor as yourself.
The opposite of pollution is loving your neighbor as yourself.
After all, do you keep your garbage in your house forever? No, you get rid of it. That means you have your neighbors deal with it, as you would not deal with it yourself. Does it matter that those neighbors aren’t your next door neighbors but are poor and distant?
How can you love your neighbor as yourself except not to create waste that you dump on them? Humans don’t need to pollute or deplete for health, safety, or security. We do to maintain our culture, but we can change our culture.
Do you have the exhaust of your car or plane go into the cabin with you? No, you blast it into the atmosphere for your neighbors to inhale, as you avoid doing yourself.
Do you locate power plants with their exhaust by your home? No, you have them placed far away so your neighbors can deal with the smoke or radioactivity.
Do you keep your old clothes forever? No you give them to a thrift shop, which does the dirty work of dumping nearly all of it to neighborhoods in poor countries that can’t use it. Here’s thousands of tons of clothes dumped in South America:
How can you love your neighbor as yourself except not to create waste that you dump on them? Humans don’t need to pollute or deplete for health, safety, or security. We do to maintain our culture, but we can change our culture.
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