Overview

In our consumerist society, it is easy to lose sight of how many resources we truly have. It’s no secret that the Earth doesn’t have an unlimited supply of resources. We have become greedy by the industrialization that has swooped the nation.

Organizations are constantly producing products and maximizing their revenue. Our environment has suffered massively to try to keep up with this rapid consumption and replenish its resources. We don’t know when, but soon enough, our environment will diminish and we might cease to exist.

As people who live on Earth, we should all care about what happens to it. What we are doing right now isn’t enough. Climate change and the emission of greenhouse gases have all occurred as a result of our overconsumption of goods. We all must educate ourselves on how to better treat and take care of our environment for the sake of our future.

I hope everyone can benefit from my findings because we all have the power to create a difference in the world. As individuals, we need to prioritize our community and learn how to protect it.

From prior knowledge, I can tell you that organizations mass-produce products to be sold, and a lot of these items later end up in the garbage (even if they haven’t been completely used). Our wastefulness has negatively impacted society which means we must work that much harder towards giving back to the environment. Otherwise, our future will look similar to the beginning of the movie, WALL-E.

Here, you can see WALL-E salvaging scraps in a landfill and miraculously finding a single plant in the waste-filled Earth.

Important Questions I’d Like to Find in My Research:

• Can we reverse the effects of Earth’s resources depleting process?
• What steps must we take to reduce our carbon footprint?
• How can companies develop procedures to support sustainability and lower their contribution to our excess waste?

These are important questions that I want to be mindful of because everyone affects our society, whether as individuals or as collectives in an organization. In this day and age, ignorance is bliss. However, when the future is so unpredictable, you can’t choose to be ignorant. I want to be able to tell people that there is a solution if we take initiative to contribute now.

Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask the moral questions. -Richard J. Foster

As you learn more about this issue, I think it is important to reevaluate your own daily life to figure out what small changes you can make to better care for our environment. Keeping a positive outlook and an open mind is essential in being the change you hope to see in the world.