Essay 2

(Saeed Salem Al Kalbani-CGD-H00205402)

 

Environment

 

The issues of global warming become more important nowadays. With the increasing number of factories and house hold consumption. Factories are important to manufacture our daily life products but if humans have a deep look on what factories provide us with or provide the environment.  People always wonder why factories were built far from where people live?  Why some countries prefer to transfer their factories and build it in developing countries such as China and India? Why do people throw the old IPHONE and go to buy the newest one? The story of stuff video (2007) answered these questions. This paper will discuss the reasons that relate factories and house consumption to issues such as global warming destroy species and how there keeps people in poverty.

 

The problems that are related to consumerism are divided to five parts which are:

Extraction

Trashing and slating the natural forest to get the raw marital that are needed for production and to make the products that we use. What does it mean? It means that human are using the natural resources of the earth. According to the Story of Stuff we need three to five plants to satisfy our need of products.

Production

In this stage we use energy to mix toxic chemical to make our products. This means many products contain mixed toxins. Toxins are bad for health. This stage creates many serious problems such as pollution. This would answer the question, why most factories were built far from where people and citizens live. And have serious impacts on human health.

Distribution

This stage is important because it sells all toxic and products to people. Offer people with low cost products and attracts them with low price products. 

Consumption

The heart of the consumption is house hold where people use the product and keep buying stuff. Consumers are important for factories and stores. This means there is always a plan to keep this heart beating. Always people change their products although sometimes they don’t need to. They might change the look (Fashion). For example who uses old mobile phone would be consider are old people who don’t like new products. Advertisement and media helps changing the people mind about products. There are many tricks to motivate people to buy and buy more.  

Disposal

Where do old products go? As trash; burned as garbage or dumped in land. Burning the garbage make it, new and more dangerous toxin. Or some countries transfer their garbage to other countries.

According to Gulf news “UAE has the highest carbon foot print among the countries in the world” (Landais. E. 2008). This means that UAE introduce high levels of Carbon Toxic to the environment. Household, factories and business industries increased in the country which causes this problem. UAE has done several things to solve this issue. First of all, introduce global awareness topics to UAE citizens. Secondly establish “Masdar” which it aims is to solve issues related to global warming. According to Masdar their aim is to 0 Carbon productions. In addition to that Dubai government tries to encourage people to go and use Dubai Metro because it reduces the pollution of transportation. Many reasons inspire and motivate UAE government to take the steps into green energy and renewable sources. The purpose of sustainability is to save the natural resources of the earth for the generation that will live in this area in future.

Overall, Consumption is serious problem which creates a serious of problem along with. All stages of consumption are dangerous in all it levels. People nowadays are more aware of this problem. However, modifying the problem and it causes will help us to find the best solutions. The earth is changing and we need to change our way of living and thinking. To save our planet we need to change our way of looking at our lives. We need to change our lives style by reducing the amount of our consumption and use the green energy in production. This issue will be discussed in future and also generation after. People of nowadays need to think of better world that their children can live on. Or we would serve them a world with serious problems. Live green, help the environment and save plant is the goal of upcoming topics that is need more actions than discussing.

 

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