Sorry for not having written in here for a while! I’ve been busy doing many things, exams being amongst them. Ai! But I’m back, and this time, with more stuff about the environment.
In my Environmental Ethics class, my teacher showed us a video (Story of Stuff) that was not only very funny but tell us the story of consumerism. Just the humour in the video makes it worth watching! It tells us how much our society are brainwashed to buy, buy, buy, buy and buy more! That isn’t truly the problem, because if you’re rich and you’re able to buy a lot of things, then good for you, right? The problems are found in the exploitation of natural resources to make those things you buy, in the process of making those products and disposing those products afterwards! Us, richer countries, we literally invade Third World countries, steal their resources because we don’t have enough anymore and then pollute their lands with factories because we don’t want to pollute ours. Other points in the video were made about the products we buy being fabricated with a multitude of extremely dangerous and toxic substances. It makes you doubt whether you’d die one day from the pen you’re using or the spoon you’re eating from, eh? the video also shows how people in society are stuck in a vicious circle to always work, work, work and then buy, buy, buy. It’s so true! It shocks me to learn that we’ve only been programmed to think this way ever since after World War II when people wanted to make an economic boom. The last part of the video showed viewers that we dispose 99% of what we buy. It’s an unconscious waste of money, thus of effort and time! All of our trash then gets burned and buried in the Earth, making our planet die 3 million times faster (okay, I’m exaggerating, but you get the point).
Anyways, enough said. Watch the video, have a great laugh and a good wake-up. It makes you think twice before you buy your next item. I’m not saying to stop going shopping; I know I wouldn’t be able to do that! It just…before sliding your credit card, or handing in those purple, green, pink and brown bills, think about if you really REALLY love that item that much, or need it at all.
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