Get Used to It

If we're serious about making private vehicle fuel out of crops (which our burgeoning population needs to eat); if we continue to build cities that don't make sense; and if we continue to see a growing divide between the rich and the poor (this is a choice by the way) in all countries then expect to see more of this kind of behaviour. The only difference, I suppose, will be that in future people will scavenge for what they need to survive not random junk from a beached supertanker.

Ultimately this could be considered conservation: waste not, want not?

Isn't it amazing what gets shipped around the world? I especially love the image of the tractor undercarriage in the surf. If one country is good at making tractors and another at growing coffee then why not do what you're good at? Except you'll have to sell a monumental amount of coffee beans to cover the cost of the tractor. And we forgot to tell you, we set the price of coffee in the tractor-making country. Is this fair trade?