Can you guess what this is?
A closer view:
This is a piece of art done by Chris Jordan. It depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the U.S. every SIX hours. I think that this qualifies as a piece of political art because it puts into one perspective the amount of waste that we generate as a Western society. Anyone should be able to look at this and be wowed, a million of anything is quite a bit, and plastic is a fairly non-renewable resource, especially because it's made from petroleum. We reached peak oil production in the 1970's and it's time to start thinking about things that are more renewable and aren't so wasteful.
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