The author gives some philosophical reflections on the issue of ever increasing amount of waste in the context of the believe that technology can solve any problem, while itself being one of the sources of the problem.

The author gives some philosophical reflections on the issue of ever increasing amount of waste in the context of the believe that technology can solve any problem, while itself being one of the sources of the problem.

Plants have been—and, for reasons of human sustenance and creative inspiration, will continue to be—centrally important to societies globally. Yet, plants—including herbs, shrubs, and trees—are commonly characterized in Western thought as passive, sessile, and silent automatons lacking a...