One Last Post;
Well this is it. It has been a good run, however I must regrettably announce that this will be my last post for this blog. With that being said, I would like to take a look at the premise of what this blog is about. In a general and rather vague sense, it was about the environment. In another sense, this blob was merely a reflection during a quest for knowledge. What is important to note however is what can be taken away, which is the process of becoming aware of our environment.
Essentially, the whole world is in our hands, in a figurative sense. Human being are perhaps the most impactful entities that have ever really been around. We have created ideas and produced concepts that that have never been existed. Of course this is something only really relevant to our own civilization, as the rest of the world does not really consider or care for such instances, but that fine. The truth is that it is all for the better, because as it is the world cannot sustain the actions of mankind. It is estimated that we use up resources that could only be sustained by 3 more Earths. We create objects for the sake of consumption and do so in a way that does not get reinvested into the world. We are doing things that are simply unsustainable, and the main reason that we do not necessarily realize why. This situation is not a hopeless situation, as the best thing to combat this, awareness; and the the best way to become aware is to focus on 3 major ideas:
1. Everything has a price
there is a reason why certain products are so cheap, and why there is a huge abundance. while you may not directly pay a large amount of money out of your pocket for a t-shirt, or fast food, or cheap electronics, we pay for it in other ways. In previous posts I have gone into more detail pertaining to these concepts, but as a quick recap a lot of what I mentioned can be easily learned through various mediums other than myself, of which the more effective ones I believe to be documentaries. Dive! is a documentary that talks about the perils of our over production of produce, The True Cost is a film that documents the cost of fast fashion, and many other similar documentaries relate other similar issues that fund our consumeristic tendencies.
2. Convenience is inconvenient
Just like certain fallacies fund some of our spending habits, the same goes for functions that are made for conveniences and flair. For instance, water bottles, do we really need them, not really, but it helps with keeping us hydrated, or at least not reliant on a stationary liquid source. Did you know that it takes 3 liters of water to bottle 1 liter of water though? Did you also know that very little of it gets recycled? It is also not really known that many containers and packaging producers use can not be recycled due to certain aspects and ingredients of the container. documentaries such as Trashed mark the follies of these practices.
3. Don't take everything for its word
It is not uncommon for people to believe that sustainability is a fad nowadays. It seems that most every company has at least one campaign that revolve around being more sustainable. What you seem to learn however is that it is not always the case. Many companies seem to fall under the ideas of green washing which is using various words incorporated with sustainability to paint a more flattering picture of themselves. While many companies may actually attempt to become more sustainably aware, without any research on their actions, they really do not do much, and may in fact do more harm than good.
Well, that is all I have now and with that, I leave you with this:
