BREAKING NEWS: THE WORLD IS NOW!!! HIDE YA KIDS! HIDE YA WIFE!
BY:Jocelyn Scott interpreting Erik Assadourian's article "The Ride and Fall of consumer Cultures"
In Erik Assadourian's article he discusses how human's have been conditioned to act and like certain things and since they have been so conditioned it becomes normal.. "Human beings are embedded in cultural systems, are shaped and constrained by their cultures, and for the most part act only within the cultural realities of their lives. The cultural norms, symbols, values, and traditions a person grew up with become 'natural.' Thus, asking people who live in consumer cultures to curb consumption is akin to asking them to stop breathing-they can do it for a moment, but then, gasping, they will inhale again." CITE In this passage he main talks about how our media and culture make us think that we have to have everything new and the more money that we have the more unhealthy not only we become but we make the Earth more unhealthy also. Mr. Assadourian also mentions that the top seven percent of the wealthiest people in the world contribute to a large chunk of pollutants. Then he says that since there are just so many people on the Earth our ecological foot print has become massive and that for as many people as there are we use more than we have.
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