.
Standard funerals here in the USA are actually harmful because they're anti
green. The figures below represent chemicals and construction materials
consumed on account of, and/or buried with, America's dead in just one
calendar year.
30,000,000+ board feet of hardwoods
100,000+ tons of bronze, steel, and copper
1,000,000+ tons of concrete.
1,000,000+ gallons of formaldehyde
Not to mention the 2,000,000+ acres of land devoted to existing cemeteries
maintained with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and petro-chemical
fertilizers which all eventually leach into the soil and into our water sources.
We are literally killing the planet to honor our dead. And the irony of it all--
the sublime irony --is that the reason half of us go to funerals is to pay our
respects to people we couldn't be bothered with when they were alive.
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Standard funerals here in the USA are actually harmful because they're anti
green. The figures below represent chemicals and construction materials
consumed on account of, and/or buried with, America's dead in just one
calendar year.
30,000,000+ board feet of hardwoods
100,000+ tons of bronze, steel, and copper
1,000,000+ tons of concrete.
1,000,000+ gallons of formaldehyde
Not to mention the 2,000,000+ acres of land devoted to existing cemeteries
maintained with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and petro-chemical
fertilizers which all eventually leach into the soil and into our water sources.
We are literally killing the planet to honor our dead. And the irony of it all--
the sublime irony --is that the reason half of us go to funerals is to pay our
respects to people we couldn't be bothered with when they were alive.
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