by B. R. GOWANI
decades ago, I went to a mechanic to get my car-muffler fixed
he just took out the entire muffler and threw it in the trash
I was shocked to see this and yelled at the mechanic
as to why he was doing this, instead of welding the damaged part
his reply was that in the US they just replace it with a new part
coming from South Asia, it was a totally new experience for me
back there, they keep on welding the muffler
till there remained no place left to weld
in US, everything is produced en masse
so much so that its cost seems cheaper
compared to the labor cost involved in repairing the thing
however,
the more products that are produced;
more garbage is generated too
then after a long wait,
government finally heeds concerned peoples’ pleas
then,
yet new industries crop up to tackle the pollution problem
such as recycling waste or recycling energy
but the problem remains, because these are no proper answers
the real solution is only one:
necessary utilization, rather than gluttonous consumption
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com