Political wastage.

For weeks on end as the South African public has taken to the streets for whatever reason, we have been inundated with the not very becoming portraits of our political party leaders smiling or scowling down at us from lamp posts and trees. When one thinks about it surely we do not have to see their faces every fifty meters or so, in my mind once per kilometre would have been very ample.
It has been interesting driving down quiet and seldom used country roads and seeing stuck to the barbed wire fences of our time all these faces that keep promising us peace, health, education and work. Admittedly the signboards have probably fed numerous goats that have happened to pass by and so have, in a small way, at least helped to assuage the hunger in the animal population.
I do however wonder at how many trees were chopped down to produce all this, in the end paper wastage? How many tons of paper and cardboard were produced for the rather massive and I wonder how futile attempts to persuade one to put ones crosses on two other pieces of paper that after being accounted for will also become some part of this massive political wastage.
In a world where responsible leaders are trying to influence their public towards a greener planet is it the right thing to do to destroy forests and create, after the election process, massive mountains of political paper wastage.
Personally I think not and so I will keep the subject "current in my affairs" until perhaps one day someone will manage to come up with a suitable alternative and I will be able to place a mental tick on an imagined piece of paper in my mind.