Has it ever came to mind how our world would look like if hyper-consuming did not exist or was less used by people . The world would be less wasteful if society would defensively approach to think and do what’s right. Responsibility and consciousness as individuals take above more than making a change. As humans we take advantage how our nature is settled, we all just get and keep getting but never give back. In the discussion of hyper-consuming, on a controversial issue has been impacted and made by many individuals. On the one hand, McKibben argues that society is being destroyed whereas consumers are the ones to blame, although he believes that personal choice comes in within the consumers economy. On the other hand, …show more content…
Our actions have altered the way we performed our lifestyle every day by hyper-consuming. We are becoming more efficient as time goes by and putting priorities in the wrong order. Agreeing to McKibben argument, he informs us about population and our environment being destroyed. Also, ways we are continuing to waste and ways we were stopping waste. He addresses issues environmental and economical. He discusses how individuals go on their way to easy and cheaper products rather than investing in products that will last longer. For example, he mentions the old-fashion waste we do in our environments like spewing and sewage that affects both air and water, we just continue to do it because it is cheap and effective. We have gotten good to eliminate the waste we need to cutting the least. Instead, why not help our economy with eliminating waste we do not need. However, plastic bottles do useless; rather than do better to our economy. So much waste is being thrown out but so little is being recycled. Why? Because we think it is really easy and cheap to do so. McKibben also argues, how we do not conserve what we have and we are not economical enough with our possessions. He argues about the student Harvard case, in which I agree to what he tries to clarify the waste. Bill McKibben makes the case that forty percent of the students at Harvard are studying finance, in which they go to Wall Street or invest other Americans money. …show more content…
Not many of us would, but people should actually think of taking action for a better planet. Jensen argues, that people doing minuscule things in their life will not do anything towards saving the planet, it only makes them feel better about themselves, things like recycling, taking shorter showers, driving half as much, and using less electricity. Industrial civilization is still killing our planet regardless of our options we lose. He writes, “The second problem—and this is another big one—is that it incorrectly assigns blame to the individual (and most especially to individuals who are particularly powerless) instead of to those who actually wield power in this system and to the system itself,” so he says that the people in power wrongly blame the people they control in which would be the average person for the dying of the planet, when those in control are the real problem. Every person is entitled to do what they want to do a few changes would not save our planet from being harmed and destroyed. We need to abolish all the things that are harming our