Over consumption is the corollary of self- indulgence when humans are taught from an early age that they need a myriad of different things, when used-to-be luxuries become perceived as "necessities", when you follow you greed instincts and "do-as-others-do" trend. When the garbage becomes fashionable, and you compile that trash because everyone else around you is doing the same. When it's accepted as OK, because one has been taught that he or she is the center of the Universe and everything around is subservient to his or her ambitions, wishes and desires.
Economic growth is limited, personal growth is not if one assumes that personal growth implies , first and foremost, the personal responsibility for every single action, be it a trivial throwing of a plastic bottle into the right trash bin to a much more noble idea of looking around, watching your own actions and contemplating and counting at least 2 steps in advance to draw in your mind the picture of not so distant future.
Some people might think that environmental problems won't do much harm to them personally. I count it as one of the acts of self-delusion. Environmental problems are more than REAL. Sitting in a Facebook chat is surreal. Breathing carbon dioxide instead of oxygen is REAl. We dont perceive it as such, though. ( IF only our eyes, noses, lungs were capable of speaking, what would they tell us, how would they blame us, I wonder?!))) Technologies make us believe that all these issues are resolvable. You just need all those policy makers come together and overcome collective action problems. Clean technologies will change our economies. They are the solution. However, their impact is Limited and will always be limited because you simply can't reverse the process, you can't reclaim the damage already done for decades.
With love & appreciation for everything Greenpeace does, Dina Tasman
www.coordinamentoantirazzista.org
Economic growth is limited, personal growth is not if one assumes that personal growth implies , first and foremost, the personal responsibility for every single action, be it a trivial throwing of a plastic bottle into the right trash bin to a much more noble idea of looking around, watching your own actions and contemplating and counting at least 2 steps in advance to draw in your mind the picture of not so distant future.
Some people might think that environmental problems won't do much harm to them personally. I count it as one of the acts of self-delusion. Environmental problems are more than REAL. Sitting in a Facebook chat is surreal. Breathing carbon dioxide instead of oxygen is REAl. We dont perceive it as such, though. ( IF only our eyes, noses, lungs were capable of speaking, what would they tell us, how would they blame us, I wonder?!))) Technologies make us believe that all these issues are resolvable. You just need all those policy makers come together and overcome collective action problems. Clean technologies will change our economies. They are the solution. However, their impact is Limited and will always be limited because you simply can't reverse the process, you can't reclaim the damage already done for decades.
With love & appreciation for everything Greenpeace does, Dina Tasman