story of stuff..

 We are all fascinated by new technologies release by corporations. We tend to buy these things so we are fit in our society. In our time, technology has a fast pace of production and we, consumers, also has a fast pace of changing our old technologies. If we look at the big picture, we can’t say that we are not in crisis but if we look closely to the things happened before the technology came to our hands we can say that we really are in crisis. Corporations and other people think that the natural resources are infinite, meaning they are renewable. Our government, who must watch out and restrict these corporations tends to tolerate them, because corporations have the money, and if you have more money you have more power to control over lesser ones.

We extract our natural resources without thinking that these are limited. We tend to use more than we share meaning there is no balance on what we extract from our environment and replace it with a new being, sample is planting a new plant to restore  what we pull out of the environment. People living in the urban areas tend to move to rural areas because they have no place to live, no sources of food and livelihood because people in the rural areas use the resources in the urban areas.

We are all blinded by term shop. We shop new items which please our eyes but we didn’t open our eyes to what happened or what will happen to our environment. Whenever we CONSUME new items, our environment gets polluted and destroyed and the people who manufactured it suffered most from toxic contaminated products. If we continue this habit, we will also suffer. We, consumers, are the one of the criminal in this issue, at the first place; corporation will not produce toxic technologies if we are not buying them. Corporations mass produce this technologies, because this gave them so much income, and think that they give satisfaction to the consumers. WE, consumers are easily get blinded and persuaded by their products.  I think, we, consumers, doesn’t have satisfaction in what we bought, we tend to buy the latest products and after we bought, we are happy at first, but after a while, after a new product is released. We urged to buy the new products. We forgot to spare our time to our friends and family who really give us happiness and satisfaction.

Disposal is one issue that must be fixed. In our times, when are items get obsolete, we throw it as a trash. These trashes are not just stomp in a landfill, but in an incinerator as well. These stuff creates climate change pollutes the land and pollutes more the air, creating dioxins, which is the most toxic substance. In effect, we are suffering from it; we inhale the same air we polluted.

CONSUMERISM is really a big problem. We made this happen and I think this problem will not be solved at one big solution. We must account for it, we must unite and make realizations about what is happening in our environment. We must see the unity that lies behind the process extraction to consumption; we must eliminate the disposal process and think of possible ways to have a cycle, from extraction of our resources to consuming, and after consuming, the products get back to the environment like there is no waste, and doesn’t involve health risk of the people, might as well as new inventions like green technology, renewable resources of energy, zero waste to make our environments sustainable. A line from the song of Michael Jackson, “Man in the Mirror” , “If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that change”, we must change our old habits instead think of new habits that will benefit us and our future generation.