Spice of Life | Small steps can make big difference for humanity

You don't have to be Sunita Williams to understand that waste management has a personal aspect, just as our fate as Earth's inhabitants has a collective side, and that the two are highly interdependent. Furthermore, if we don't care for the first, the second can easily become a casualty.

Williams informed the media how captivating the Himalayas appear from space shortly after her most recent splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. Without question, Earth is not only the sole planet in the solar system that is habitable, but it is also incredibly beautiful.

Our planet is becoming uninhabitable due to widespread pollution, environmental degradation, and our incapacity to manage waste from unsustainable human activities and needs. If this continues unchecked, we may be forced to mass migrate to Mars or carry all of the trash we have accumulated to the sulfurous clouds of Venus.