In the introduction to his book, Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, the Pulitzer prize-winning author Edward Humes lays out our trash and asks us to sort through it, examining how we came to be so wasteful. In his introduction, Humes argues that trash is a huge problem in the U.S and that we Americans are obsessed with it. Humes also argues that not only does trash numb us to the effects it cause, but also shows that we cannot control our obsession with consuming and always have to buy the next best thing. Through use of descriptive words, showing of authority on the subject through ethos, and brilliant pathos in his argument, Humes correctly implies that trash is a big problem that can be solved and we can do something about
