As Western dominator culture continues to infect more people on a global scale, greed, self-centeredness, and ignorance will tighten its grip over vulnerable society. Our current consumer culture is instituted primarily so that extreme power can be concentrated in the hands of a few. However, those holding this power are not responsible by any means. They tirelessly perpetuate the acquiring of wealth thinking it will bring them happiness and fill their void resulting from their disconnection with nature, the spiritual world, and the interconnected web of life on this planet. In order to ensure the well-being of future generations, power must be held by ALL the world’s people. Those practicing consumer culture must change their lifestyles on the most basic level and become aware of the current state of the planet. Profit-seeking actions taken by governments and corporations have led to extreme pollution, genocide, and global climate change. According to their past actions, the world’s leaders are in no shape fit to take care of our delicate planet and all of its life. Our future will be bleak if these people continue to irresponsibly dominate the world. Population is estimated to reach SEVEN BILLION (7,000,000,000). As humans enjoy healthy increases in population, increased competition will cause other species to die out. Decreases in the species diversity will greatly endangers our survival. As awareness increases and global catastrophes continue, I feel people will begin taking greater action toward sustainability. However, I’m skeptical as to weather that will happen before we forever scar our planet nomadic ancestors We may want to reexamine the lifestyles practiced by our nomadic anecestors who were able to live in complete harmony with the natural world thousands of years ago ensuring the fruitfulness of future generations. We can decrease our dependence on fossil fuels and learn techniques for survival and happiness that allow for constant searching of sustenance.
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breast cancer. Antonio hadn’t lost his job with the local government—where
he had worked for almost three decades. He hadn’t sold his home, tried to
drive a taxi to earn a wage, or asked his wife to sell tacos on the
street—all to pay his son’s legal bills. And if he hadn’t told me he had
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breast cancer. Antonio hadn’t lost his job with the local government—where
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drive a taxi to earn a wage, or asked his wife to sell tacos on the
street—all to pay his son’s legal bills. And if he hadn’t told me he had
Parkinson’s, it would be hard to tell if the shaking was the mere trauma of
reliving the last nine years.
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While the population increases, the size of the planet stays the same and is only going to become more and more uninhabitable every day that we abuse our mother earth… she’s gonna get fed up with us one day and kick us out of home and then where will we go?
LuMarin
Surely when it was getting to 6 billion someone ask that same question.
Coleman Andrew
We cannot handle 7 billion or more if those 7 billion are all from “developed” countries. The level of consumption from developed countries is such that if the rest of the world consumed at this level we would quickly exhaust our available resources.
