The human species has a prodigious power to litter, but the popular belief has been that the sheer enormousness of space prevents humans from doing too much damage.
Perhaps the enormousness of the problem obscures it; the prospect of cleaning waters and preserving forests appears so vast as to be out of the reach of individuals.
A computer-generated image of objects in Earth's orbit The human species has a prodigious power to litter, but the popular belief has been that the sheer enormousness of space .