Teaching via cartoons: a virtual history of the premeditated creation of Waste, planned-obsolescence and stirred into the usual soup of greed-related incentives to Consume ever-more/yr, with numbers and a decent--oft irreverent--narrative.

More on them at storyofstuff.org ... great for precocious kids/adults .. maybe even certain precocious cats?
(Ch 22/KCRB here shows this periodically); it's not just for rural folk who have an idea how things grow in real-life, what a Dump looks like up-close etc. The per-capita numbers join the other disturbing factoids of the Throw-away mebntality (I recall The Wastemakers, The Insolent Chariots of the '60s and later ..as succeeded the publishing of Silent Spring (which Worked ..for a little while ..then they forgot to remember it. Too.

Carrion.. we make megatons of it.