I love the character design, illustration, and the story development of 垃圾人 Rubbish Race. The illustration book focused on one major environmental issue we are facing today, solid waste. Through the perspective of a fictitious mutant "consumer goods" beings, Rubbish race, the author help readers to look at our/human's possible future, extinction from the earth due to over consumption. Very unique character design based on recognizable Hong Kong artifacts, which give this illustration a unique Hong Kong characteristic!!
I hope that this book can help start conversation regarding human responsibilities, and make choices not negatively impact our future generation. Our next generation should have the right to enjoy what we enjoy today. "Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." 1987 Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. The Brundtland definition. “Several 200-year-old economic and social experiments are up for question, not a 4-billion-year-old planet. The question is not whether we can manage the biosphere -- we can't. The question is whether we can manage ourselves, our numbers, greed, arrogance, and waste, and whether we can bring forth a new world of ideas that are compatible with the planet, so the planet will allow them to persist.” Article, “The Planet is Not in Danger, Our Ideas Are “, Donella H. Meadows was an adjunct professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College.
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