Plastic future
A garden made out of 30,000 plastic bottles shaped into tulips is created as part of the local government's efforts to raise environment awareness and attract tourism in Lamitan City, Basilan, Philippines. Reuters
We imagine dinosaurs through the fossils and they are re-created from the perceived structure of the skeletal remains found buried in the earth. The recreation can of course never match the real thing. The plastic tulip garden is as much a recreation of the future which depicts what once was. A time will come when a generation of people will not know what a tree was.
So instead of celebrating a plastic tulip garden we should cry because of it. Is this the kind of future we are presenting to the next generation? Do they even want such a bad inheritance?
Abilasha D
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