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Shereen. "The most beautiful person we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of th depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and deep-loving concern." Beautiful people dont just happen
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Story of Stuffs
"Our enormously productive economy... demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption... we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate""99% of the things we buy is thrashed within 6 months of purchase... Today, we consume twice as much as a decade ago." "1/3 of our natural resources are gone... 40% of our water ways are undrinkable... 80% of our natural forest have collapsed... At Amazon, 2000 trees are cut down in a minute..." Deluded and selfish. "100000 synthetic chemicals are used and 1/2 are not tested." "Toxic chemicals such as Brominated Flame Retardants (BFR) are used in appliances, pillows et cetera as it prevent fire." Wastage and exploitation of Earth serves as a double-edged sword. As we harm our environment with our , passionate consumption patterns, we are feeding the system that ultimately harms our health, physically and mentally, and erodes the ecosystem specifically designed for us to live in. Yet we go ahead with the consumption, neglect investment into better transportation, better education and more. Why? Because of perceived obsolences and planned obsolences. Producers design and plan to have products made in such a way that things can get chucked and made useless in as short a time as possible. Then the media consistently pounds on us the recurring message that what we have now is not good, not enough and it's going to be disgusting to be caught not following up with the trend. At the end of it all, the solution to this perceived problem is shopping. So we continue to shop, work, shop, consume and allow this unworkable system to grow. For more details on what you can do and research on this topic, visit: Story of Stuffs Project |