PART A
1. USA has 5% of world’s population but they are using 30% of world’s resources and creating 30% of waste which means they are actually over taking the third world countries and thrashing their resources and it eventually makes those countries less valuable. They are using more than their own share which is not ethical.
2. Annie believes that her country’s government doesn’t value the third world countries people because the government believes third world country people don’t own the resources even if they are living there for generations claiming that those people don’t buy a lot of STUFF as they don’t own the means of production which is strictly against ethical theory, because people need to be valued. 2000 trees are being cut down in Amazon, so there is no one who can take action and regulate the system properly which can help in using these resources in a meaningful way.
3. Now the way these resources are being used is very dangerous for human health because they produce a lot of toxic waste and chemicals which produces the toxic contaminated products. These products are so dangerous for our health that they affects us in some way because there has not been any research on how to control this toxic waste and use it in human friendly way.
4. The pollution that is generated by industries is so toxic that we get exposed to it in a daily life and we don’t even recognize it, such as detergents, medicines etc etc...
5. From the stuff that goes inside our body from food, the ingredients that are used in that food is also intoxicated, so the food that goes inside the pregnant mother eventually goes inside the baby that is being breast fed, the babies are getting the highest life time dose of toxic chemicals from breast feeding from their mothers, that is a clear violation of ETHICS. Breast feeding should be the most fundamental human active nurturing. It should be sacred and safe which should be protected by the government and industries by using less intoxicated materials and chemicals.
6. Another point that people who live in slums and poor conditions have no other choice but to work in these industries that uses highly toxic chemicals and materials and these women and men gets exposed to these chemicals everyday and eventually these chemicals get promoted to their children and people who live in that society, this process makes the living standards to the lowest level and that is the reason the their world countries societies are becoming very polluted. This way whole communities and societies get wasted. It’s unethical as people should be getting better living standards and non chemical and toxic food.
7. The natural resources that are being used actually pays for the products that are being used by the people who living in first world countries, people get cheap rates to buy products, wow it seems so attractive but hey! They are using the waste and intoxicated products, the resources weren’t even used from their own land, so even if they use someone else’s land they eventually intoxicate their own people (making a fool out of them) just to make money. They have forgotten about how precious a human life is but who cares! They just want to make money. That is very much against ethics.
8. The products that are sold cheap in big marts, it seems as if you don’t even pay for them but actually they don’t even pay their own employees properly, they don’t even cover their health insurance because they don’t value human lives anymore. People pay taxes to live in a clean society and get better living standards but they don’t get pollution free environment. The labor that is used to make the stuff is from third world countries so that people from first world countries can live and enjoy the stuff, but hey! Are those people who are actually producing the stuff humans? Don’t they have a right to use that stuff? It surely isn’t ethical in any sense. None of these contributions are being recorded anywhere because people from third world countries are not valued.
9. The higher authorities, the leaders motivates their citizens to shop and that eventually creates 99% of waste within 6 months, now how cant this much percentage makes the environment polluted. We are moving to very low levels of living standards, we are breathing a polluted and intoxicated air, we are eating chemicals and toxic food and products, we are using and buying so much stuff that we are actually creating tons of wastes and it is rising fast each year. American economic advisor’s chairman said “The American economy’s ultimate purpose it to produce more consumer goods, ‘the ultimate purpose’ that wasn’t health care, education, safe transportation, sustainability or justice”. By making the stuff less useable and reducing the life and quality of stuff they actually make people consume more goods which creates more trash and waste to pollute the society.
PART B
1. Pollution/waste by using more stuff by people
2. Man made toxics
3. Declining happiness and weather changing
4. Recycling
5. New school of thought: sustainability, equity, green chemistry, zero waste, closed loop production, renewable energy and local living economies.
Argument/Opinion:
I agree with the video because it has been created by people, the way third world countries resources are being used, by giving people low quality and life of stuff, the way they motivate people to buy stuff and creating stuff that can’t be recycled, no human rights for those who live in slums, by thrashing the waste and garbage and creating more toxic waste and pollution, the way people are being played with their minds (mind control). Indeed we live in a society where stuff is used very rapidly and there is no more human value, we live in a society where we breathe and eat the polluted and toxic air and stuff from the day we open our eyes till the day we will die. Stuff is made so that it can’t be recycled, living standards have been declined, people get sicker, there has been more exposure to kids, and we consume more stuff than ever before. This is all part of the old school of thought that was adapted to get people to use more stuff and boost the economies, they never thought about human health or rights. So we need to change that and by using some of the points by new school of thought we could initiate the change just about now.
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