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The Environment Is at Risk of No Longer Coping
(From the book New Concepts for Business and Humanity)
The Environment Can No Longer Support Us Into The Future
The planet’s environmentally damaged structures are no longer supporting humanity into the future. Humanity’s need for more and more products has created a huge continuously expanding production process. This has resulted in enormous pollution caused by manufacturing processes, by-products, as well as the resulting waste disposal. This type of lifestyle no longer serves the planet.
Once humanity’s lifestyles are simplified, this growing consumption rate will no longer cause such excessive environmental and chemical damage and will result in a more manageable, sustainable environment. The environment in turn will function better as a support structure for the planet’s overall functioning.
People, however, may not wish to give up their current lifestyle, as they often do not wish to give up the finer things in life. However, this is not necessary in this model. It is possible for humanity to continue to have technological benefits; however, they will need to simplify their lives and change lifestyles in those aspects of their life where pollution can be reduced. They will need to reassess how they make use of products and whether they will need these products in both the home and the workplace.
People need to ask themselves if they have a real need for everything they already own or wish to acquire. Could they simplify life, do with less but not without, and not lose quality of living? Is the bigger, better car or other luxury item needed if it adds to the pollution on the planet? Is it possible to feel happy without a continuous need to expand the base of luxury items or electronic gadgets?
If most of humanity would buy much less in the way of gadgets, there would be an enormous decline in the consumption rate; this would greatly reduce planetary pollution.
Overconsumption of products is severely out of balance in many places and is mostly noticeable in a modernized “throw-away” society. If people buy only durable products that are ecologically sustainable and are truly needed, it will have great impact by reducing the resulting waste and damage to the environment.
Why is there such a great need these days for people to continuously wish for more, while they already have enough? It is because most people buy products without assessing if they really need these products. Often, newly bought products are no longer used after a short period. This need for more products or gadgets is increasing, and most people are unaware they have such a driving need.
Humanity Needs Sustenance
With day-to-day living not as simple as it used to be, there is a need for humanity to change its ways of being. More and more people these days wish to have more or better products, often because of societal pressures and affluence. Many people believe they do need the goods they want; however, this is not always so. People will soon begin to understand that this excessive buying and spending can no longer continue.
In the last decade, most people’s beliefs have been changing on a large scale toward beliefs that they need to buy more or better products. The underlying cause of why the need to amass is so great in today’s society is because people are looking, more than ever, for nourishment, which they are trying to find outside themselves. Excessive spending is usually the result.
Present lifestyle issues such as financial commitments, may create stress or anxiety in people who, in turn, often try to ease such pressures by buying more items or products. Through acquisition of these products, they look for sustenance in an ever-increasing emotionally dysfunctional world. This cycle can cause major internal stresses that cannot be eased by buying goods but need to be resolved in a way that is genuinely sustaining.
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Information about the future of the planet and the crisis that is looming for all of humanity can also be found in my book New Concepts for Business and Humanity.
