Activity 1.A.

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(Essay Type)

Essay Question:

In not more than (five) 5 sentences, explain/justify how the prevailing values and beliefs of
consumerism are interconnected with the most threatening ecological problems dealing with human-
induced global climate change.

The belief that a person’s happiness is dependent on one’s consumption. It’s not simply that
well-being depends upon a standard of living above some threshold, but that the main happiness
for a person is there consumption and material possessions. This behavior is what causes some of
the most common and threatening ecological problems today since people keep on consuming
and consuming, the more products needs to be produced and dispose off which in turn increases
the overall pollution in the environment. Also if this belief keeps going it will only make the
problems like global warming even worse since we are consuming more than the earth can
naturally replenish. We need to be smart about how we consume our resources otherwise if we
don’t then it will be gone before we know it.