Environmental Perspective #2

"Live simply, so others may simply live." If people live simply, the world would be a better place to live because people will be lighthearted, having nothing to worry about. In the past, there was no huge metropolitan urban; rather, a small group of people formed the village and lived there. In small towns, contact with outside of the town was rare, so people cooperated with each other well and their goal of the year was to live happy lives. Furthermore, there was nothing to worry about. In contrast, modern people's priority is to be rich and interactions between people are too complex. Therefore, there are too much things to think or worry about. Also, modern way of living has a great impact on environment. Because people give priority on money-making over environment, people do not care about damages done to environment if they can become wealthy. Due to this fact, a lot of poisonous liquids and gases are being exposed to the Earth's atmosphere. Also, because companies manufacture their products in factories and produce them in massive quantities, amount of trash being exposed is higher than ever. Since the Earth is getting sick more and more, people should remember that their every single action has impact on Earth and take responsibilities on their deeds. Needs = what is indispensable Wants = not needed, but desired to get Part of reason for Earth being complex and becoming a worse place to live is too much of wants compared to the past. Since industrial revolution, items available to consumers have increased dramatically. And, as people have a lot of more products to buy, people's wants, or greed, are increasing. There would be no problem if people buy only what are needed. However, people buy more than needed, so trash issue is getting serious. If people don't have desire to own a lot of things, there will not be much of trash made. Therefore, it is important for people to reduce their desire and only buy what they need.