How depressing that we live in a world where people have to literally pick through human refuse to find things to sell in order to stay alive.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2024
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I live in India. I have 3 sorting bins. 1 composting organic waste bin, 1 non-recyclable plastics/glass bin, 1 recyclable plastics/metal/paper bin.
I spent 3000 INR buying the composting organic bin ( to support the local business selling it and reusables about 1000 INR per year )
I get back about 200 INR every 6months for going to local recyclers with roughly 2 to 5 kilos of metal + plastics.
About 2 kilos of waste not-recycled every month total ( 2 people ) .
GUESS HOW MANY PEOPLE WHO DO NOT DO THIS IN INDIA.
Im sad my fellow humans do not understand what responsibility is like.
But basically what you're saying (and this is not to condemn you for not being wasteful, you're doing the right thing) is that these garbage pickers wouldn't even have that as a livelihood if people were more personally responsible. As I said, that is the right thing to do when it comes to waste and the environment, but something must be done to help those people as well.
If everyone was being responsible, there would be a social net, a garbage sorter job, a garbage recycler employer, an ethical reasonable salary, and it would be a safe governed work environment, it would give dignity back to the downtrodden. People would reject corruption.
Garbage dumps get set on fire, the fumes are toxic, medical waste gets thrown out and mixed in, people who are living on garbage dumps are in HELL. NO ONE SHOULD LIVE ON GARBAGE DUMPS!
Set up NGOs and involve government orgs to regulate and oversee care and attention for these people.
These things cannot happen in India because the indian population will not care. FUXK YOu GOT MINE is a typical indian mindset.
Wtf is this title?
They gotta compete for your attention and clickbait you.
This
Ok, yeah, sure, but the title doesn't even make sense as a sentence.
Did they change the title since your comment?
No. It's a sentence fragment. It makes no sense and leaves out the end of the thought
For India’s garbage pickers, a miserable and dangerous job [is] made worse by extreme heat
That's a full thought. I probably would have kept the "is" but headlines often drop small words.
They don't often drop the only verb of the sentence, rendering it nonsensical.
And also is this actually a common practice? Like, would it be a normal headline to write:
"The forge workers standing up human rights"
Rather than
"The forge workers standing up for human rights" ??
No, Clearly not, as the former makes no goddamn sense. Similar to the title in question. I don't get why you're defending this poor practice tho. It doesn't even make sense for it to be a non English speaker that wrote it making a translation issue because one of the earliest things you learn in English, French, Spanish, etc is that a sentence needs a verb to function.
Some words can be dropped, some can't. Language isn't consistent. Especially for headlines, they practically have their own rules.
No offense intended by this question at all, but are you a native English speaker?
Nominal sentences in English are relatively uncommon, but may be found in non-finite embedded clauses such as the one in "I consider John intelligent", where to be is omitted from John to be intelligent.
They can also be found in newspaper headlines, such as "Jones Winner" where the intended meaning is with the copular verb, "Jones is the Winner".[9]
Other examples are proverbs ("More haste, less speed"); requests ("Scalpel!"); and statements of existence ("Fire in the hole!"), which are often warnings.
"Since the definition of a sentence in Standard English is a construction consisting of a subject noun phrase and a predicate verb phrase, by definition, the answer is that you can't have a verbless sentence, even short ones: Ice melts, Ducks quack, Winter sucks, etc.— a main verb has to be there."
https://www.evansville.edu/writingcenter/downloads/sentence-parts.pdf
Fragments can still convey a complete thought without being a sentence: eg "Go!", "Scalpel!", "So far, so good.", etc.
https://www.niu.edu/writingtutorial/punctuation/sentence-fragments.shtml
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/sentence_fragments.html
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/mistake-of-the-month-sentence-fragments/
The title in question was especially bad as it didn't make sense due to the omitted verb, but still had the structure of a standard sentence, making it even harder to interpret. I am a native English speaker which is why I remember every grammar lesson from pre-k through college saying that a sentence needs to have both a subject and a verb. Sometimes, the subject is implied, like in an imperative sentence, but that's the exception, not the rule.
And I'm not trying to be a total stickler abt grammar just for the sake of it, but because it is actively poisoning readability and we shouldn't be rewarding it whether malicious as another commenter had suggested or just out of laziness. There's no effect that the writer here is achieving by cutting the words the were cut.
I'll also add that that wikipedia article uses that 'Jones Winner' thing, but it would be much less ambiguous to just say 'Jones Wins' and so you shoud pretty much always use the second. If this headline wanted to eliminate unnecessary words to minimize wordcount or something, they could easily have taken out their superfluous adjectives rather than the verb which severely hindered readability.
It’s working as intended.
You have to visit their website thus creating traffic to increase their website ranking and generate ad revenue.
Most news titles are straight up false not just doesn’t make sense.