The video highlights the bad effects of consumerism on the environment and on our health. I, myself, am a consumer and I have not really thought much about how the things I consume were made until I watched this video. It has awakened my awareness to how bad excessive consumption is to us and to everything around us. I learned that the production of the things I consume is a lot more complicated than I thought. Production costs a lot, in terms of money, labor, and a whole lot of consequences. I learned that because of consumerism, one-third of the earth's resources have already been consumed. It goes on at an alarming rate. And because first-world countries consume more, their resources are getting scarce so now they get their resources from third-world countries. And because production produces so much pollution, big corporations' factories are in third-world countries. I live in a third-world country. The things I consume are badly affecting my country and in the end, if this unhealthy situation goes on, I and my people will be the ones suffering the most. I do not want that to happen.
At least 100,000 toxic synthetic chemicals are being used in production. All the waste and pollution go to my native land but according to the video, we live in the same planet so everyone is affected. It comes back around. I hope corporations realize that but they are too blinded by the amount of money they are earning. The government should do something about it but corporations run the economy so the government is a slave to the corporations. It is sad that the government cares more about the economy than the actual welfare of the people and the environment. Corporations seem to control us like we are puppets. They put ads on tv, on the internet, everywhere to make us, the consumers, think that we need the things they sell even if they are not really necessary. We buy stuff either because we need them or we want them. And most of the stuff we buy are not necessities. The ads and the trends make us want to buy them. We throw away stuff that are working perfectly to buy things that go with the trends.
I learned from this video that 99% of the things we consume goes to waste. They either go to landfills or are being incinerated . Incinerators use dioxin which is the most toxic man-made substance. How much damage can we really make by just consuming way too much? There are people and organizations who are taking a stand against this vicious cycle. If we do not stop it, climate change will just get even worse. Let us not wait until it is already too late. We can do something about it if we maintain sustainability, equity, green chemistry, zero waste, closed-loop production, renewable energy and local living economies. All of these seem ideal but not impossible. We can do it if we work together with genuine will to help make a change to the only planet we have. If it dies, we all die. And we should not let it happen.
At least 100,000 toxic synthetic chemicals are being used in production. All the waste and pollution go to my native land but according to the video, we live in the same planet so everyone is affected. It comes back around. I hope corporations realize that but they are too blinded by the amount of money they are earning. The government should do something about it but corporations run the economy so the government is a slave to the corporations. It is sad that the government cares more about the economy than the actual welfare of the people and the environment. Corporations seem to control us like we are puppets. They put ads on tv, on the internet, everywhere to make us, the consumers, think that we need the things they sell even if they are not really necessary. We buy stuff either because we need them or we want them. And most of the stuff we buy are not necessities. The ads and the trends make us want to buy them. We throw away stuff that are working perfectly to buy things that go with the trends.
I learned from this video that 99% of the things we consume goes to waste. They either go to landfills or are being incinerated . Incinerators use dioxin which is the most toxic man-made substance. How much damage can we really make by just consuming way too much? There are people and organizations who are taking a stand against this vicious cycle. If we do not stop it, climate change will just get even worse. Let us not wait until it is already too late. We can do something about it if we maintain sustainability, equity, green chemistry, zero waste, closed-loop production, renewable energy and local living economies. All of these seem ideal but not impossible. We can do it if we work together with genuine will to help make a change to the only planet we have. If it dies, we all die. And we should not let it happen.
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