By watching the video clip http://www.storyofstuff.com/ , I was stunned over the connection between the government, the corporation and the consumption by us citizens.I strongly believe that if we shall be able to create a more sustainable world, we all have to take responsibility and question the obsession of owning things, especially here in the Western world. I really think that the ownership request is the biggest issue. Humankind has a tendency to continuously want newer things in their homes. This makes the request in new technical gadgets increase, which means that the manufacturing industry all the time must seek to do its best in order to make the trendiest. This design hysteria creates more quantity than quality of durability in many cases. And this leads to that you need a new thing in a short time interval. The corporation’s mission is to make more money. And they are doing that by making us buy stuff, we are feeding the corporation.
Isn’t it possible for us to be happy without consuming? “Stop wasting week” – is a yearly re-emerged theme week that beholds the need of resource saving. “Stop wasting week” question the Western consuming culture, pays attention to global (un)fairness and want to encourage people to decrease the material consumption. If all the people on earth consumed as much as the average Finn, according to an international index comparison, we would need four earths. More information at: www.nuukuusviikko.net/svenska
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