America IS Consumerism and Technology.

The video last week really made me think about how far we as a civilization are willing to go. And for what? Just to make our lives easier we spend endless amounts of money on unnecessary items and technological advancements. The world itself, as the video showed, gives us the essential things for life. Food, shelter, and even entertainment. People as well as animals live and die. That is how it has been and how it always will or at least should be. We are so used to living with technology around us that most of us would not be able to survive without it. But, this technology is slowly killing the environment in which we thrive so it seems as though it's a no win situation. Why destroy the one thing that gives us everything we need to survive. I think that it is important to be able to live without the luxury of technology. To be able to be happy and live without these things is truly living. Everyone gets so caught up in the Internet, television, driving and cellphones. I think that because of the clear environmental crisis it is important to stand back for a moment and realize what we need and do not need. We obviously need the earth so we need to do something to save it if we want to keep living.