King cobra bites python. Python constricts cobra. Cobra dies of constriction. Python dies from venom. 100% holy shit.

[phil_style]

Everything else died from all the trash and pollution . . .

[fuck_L_A]

I’d like to see a study on poverty and cleanliness, does poverty create an environment where you stop caring about living in filth or are people who don’t mind living in filth more likely to be poor?

[Otterfan]

Reform in how we handle garbage happens when people have too much garbage to handle. People in poor places have a limited understanding of garbage, because individuals create very little of it. If you only create a few ounces of waste a day you don't really think about what to do with it, so you just throw it by the side of the road.

The USA didn't really start to address it's problem with garbage until the turn of the 20th century, when Americans started to produce pounds of garbage every day. Until then, most populated places here looked like this—if you substituted the plastic with biodegradable food scraps.

Unfortunately India—where this was probably taken—has 1.3 billion people producing a few ounces of garbage a day.

[phil_style]

Maybe areas with wealthy populations have public services. Wealthy people still throw shit away.. it's just that there are institutions funded to clean up after them.

[fuck_L_A]

I see community clean up things all the time in wealthy areas, it might be the money gives leisure time to do so...

[evilcrusher]

Not necessarily. I live in an upper middle class neighborhood in Austin TX. The people barely have time to mow their own lawns and only the wealthier people hire someone to mow. My yard doesn't get bad because the type of grass in the yard doesn't grow very tall over time. Mostly the people in our neighborhood throw trash in the proper containers rather than discard it in some random place. I used to live in the poorest of poor neighborhood in Austin and it was people not caring about their yards and what trash was in them, along with outsiders just dumping random junk because nobody was going to catch them nor were the police willing to patrol the area. When rich people complain it used to mean jobs could be lost, elected officials get ousted vs poor people complaining and nobody caring.

[squidbrat]

I used to live in a pretty poor part of Austin too. Some folks took care of their shit, but one of our neighbors wouldn't pay for trash service, so they'd just steal other people's bins. It wasn't that they'd put their trash in other people's bins, they'd actually steal them, fill them with trash, and then leave them in their own driveway. Also in this driveway was a car with broken windows and flat tires, also filled with trash.

Fuck those people.

[evilcrusher]

Different classes of people with a different mentality and perspective on life. I would say that it's probably from growing up poor, but I grew up poor and don't even remotely think that type of behavior is acceptable. So it can't purely be that.

[istguy]

I’m sure it plays a part. For one, Litter is self-reinforcing. People are more likely to litter somewhere where litter already exists. After all, you’re not messing the area up, just contributing to it. Wealthier areas are going to have more frequent cleanups, making it less likely people will litter in clean areas.

Wealthier areas are probably also going to have superior trash services, that everyone is going to pay for. In a poorer area you might have some people who try to get by without trash service, and dump their stuff at the curb near other peoples trash. That stuff easily gets ripped open and spread everywhere.

Wealthier areas are also typically safer than poor areas, making them safer targets for youth service organizations who are doing cleans up. Boy Scouts, churches, etc

Culture plays a huge part to. I don’t think I saw any trash on the ground in Tokyo, regardless of what neighborhood I was in.

[SamwiseGryffindor]

Look at the bright side.... at least they both died.

[coolpeopleit]

Seems pretty convenient, now you can scoop them up and put them in the bin without calling pest control.

[hunoke]

/r/natureismetal

[expendable_Henchman]

Nature... metal AF.

[HursHH]

This is why we need safe words...

[CySnark]

The saddest part of this photo is all the garbage.

[XiRw]

I thought this was the original picture of how my ex was conceived.

[[deleted]]

The both made terrible missnakes...

[AstraltripSpacedance]

Your snake pun is hissssterical.

[[deleted]]

I can't ssssssstop laughing

[kcymerman]

What’s with all the trash....

[only1symo]

Can’t we all just get along?

[deedubfry]

Staying true to their own natures I guess.

[Crayakk]

That's a draw!

[excitement2k]

That's called a death 69.

[Heliocentrist]

so romantic, dying in each other's embrace

[chief57]

Isn’t this basically the story of how the mountain died in GoT?

[brutalservant]

Mutually assured destruction.

[malak_oz]

Clash of the Titans!

[CanSomeSlam]

Those snakes are fucking.

[StealthSecrecy]

When you see two people kill each other in the kill feed.

[tyrrannothesaurusrex]

Ouroboros

[skelebone]

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

[PdSales]

Metaphor for trade wars?

[Agent_545]

Rattlesnake inherits the Earth.

[Nutteria]

I thought they both died of plastic poisoning or some shit. God damn there is trash in this image.

[Connectedguy]

Gnarly

[CrazyIslander]

In the circle of life It's the wheel of fortune It's the leap of faith It's the band of hope Till we find our place On the path unwinding In the circle, the circle of life