when you have 80% of your manufacturing base, actively engineering items to breakdown and guarantee replacement ….. don’t act surprised when another country can come along with 70% breakdowns and beat you by volume. with the landfills and oceans busting, do we really need to create ANYTHING that cannot be kept generation to generation? because we do keep them regardless … interesting how greed in the larger sense is suicidal behavior ….

And the machine of consumerism grinds on…
Poor gull. :(
figured the pic somehow gave tribute to his state … happened upon it just like that, with the dead leaf next to him. it touched me at the time in some way i couldn’t express