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Imagine if you had to deal with your own mess and you couldn’t pass it to someone else to take care of. Perhaps you could pile it in the garden or under the bed. Ether way one day it’s going to catch up with you. This is pretty much where we are today, we are in effect now becoming victims of our own mess, our back yard is beginning to stink, dramatically impact our environment and we need to do something about it, fast.
So in addition to our ability to reuse and recycle, common sense tells us we need to reduce not only our own waste, but what causes the waste in the first place, i.e. what we can’t make good sustainable use of is part of the problem.
Consuming Passion
“We are what we consume”, think about it, modern society gives us the never ending possibilities of choice, hook this up with the power of desire and consumption soon outstrips well, just about everything.
So what’s the answer? Actually it’s amazingly simple. If you avoid making rubbish in the first place, you don't have to worry about its disposal. So why buy stuff just to throw it away? Why can’t the temporary solution become the permanent or the reusable one? And that’s the philosophy for reduction in a nutshell. Changing our habits isn’t easy, but it is the key.
