Consumerism has two sets of twins: spend, spend; throw, throw.
With a planet that is bursting at its seamless circle and more water being displaced by land, it doesn’t help that at every change of season, a new phone model is invented; an old gadget is outsmarted by a novel one. Perhaps, the most robust of landfill membranes invented may not be able to accommodate the bottomless pit of trash we give up collectively without a second thought. Yet, the earth seems to have an insatiable appetite to digest our need or rather greed to consume more than we need. Or is it?
I fear to think that the legacy we leave behind could be a poorer earth, with less natural resources, less capacity to nurture and give, and consequently, greater poverty.
The text quoted below says that the horse leech has two daughters who cry "Give, give". The horse leech is a leech that attacks the nasal cavity of a horse. It sucks the blood out of the horse literally. Let's not give in to the bloodsucker of our unbridled desires -- never having enough. Covetousness is poverty of spirit and soul.
“The horse leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that says not, It is enough.” Proverbs 30:15, 16