Litterbugs: Insects or Not?

Though the title implies that I will be analyzing whether or not litterbugs are insects or not, you have been misled. They are most definitely not bugs, just close relatives in the "Things You Would Squish With Your Foot If You Had The Chance" Class. What would cause someone to litter? One answer is that they are simply bozos or jerks, or a combination of both. However, not all reasons are so straight forward.

The first main reason that people litter is because they don't think that just one person will make much of a difference. This is a self centered view of the world. Obviously, there are more people in the world who litter than one. Even if only one in a hundred people (and I'll be honest, there are more) littered, we would still have 60 million people in the world who are littering. And this is just one occurrence. For some, this is a recurring habit or addiction, sort of like drugs. Imagine the environmental degradation from this!

The next reason for littering is simply to "stick it to the man" or for challenge. This is comparable to other crimes like stealing, or murder. These type of people are frequently leaving trash where it would be noticed by others. It gives them great pleasure, and then they have to move up to the next level of littering. Frequently, these wild attempts to gain attention take more effort than just throwing the trash away. Just throw it away, the girls like it better if you care about the environment. It makes them think you're sensitive.

The last reason is that people are simply too lazy to throw away their trash. After all, this is the generation where everything is just a click away on the internet. A step or two would just be too far. So, without looking away from the monitor, they toss the trash behind them for their mom or some other responsible human being to pick it up. As if moms and those responsible people don't have enough to do already.

These are the main reasons that people litter. If this blog has offended you in any way, by all means, print it out, and crumple it up. Rip it up! Burn it! Draw on it! Please recycle when you're done. But if this is offending you, you're probably a litterbug, and you'll just throw it over your shoulder.