The old adage of waste not want not is as valid today as ever. In a time of abundance and throw away everything getting back to waste not want not would be a nice thing to see. New technologies tempt people to ever acquire more and more things, change to the old, only a few months old, with the new. The mindless conditioning of this lifestyle where everything is disposable and not much is cherished. Ego drives the need to have the newest fastest now-est now, right now and before everyone else. The lines in front of electronics stores on new release days attest to this. Virtually everyone in line had one of what ever they are in line for, they just don;t have the newest one so therefore they are inadequate and now need to get the newest one? At what end does this endless consumerism come to? What will be done with all the discarded stuff? Of course these questions are being asked all the time and efforts to effect change here and there are implemented but there needs to be a shift in mass thinking away from this consumption for anything to work. I begin to think about this today when I see the note about the choose I can make to have my sheets washed daily or not while on an extended stay at best Singapore hotel this change I a seeing all over the world must be having a great impact on water, energy and detergent usage. If only every industry cold effect this type of change with this great an impact. How would this effect the world? Individual changes are great and important but driving forces from the top down are necessary to get a head of the trend of consume and pollute without thought for now or the future.
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