When reading Erik Assadourian’s article, I found the information to be things I was already familiar with. However, I did enjoy the clarification of certain things. Considering the fact that I live in the United States, I sometimes forget that things that may seem normal to me may be strange to someone in other countries and vice versa. Americans thrive on eating meat, whereas there are some countries that are completely against the consumption of animals. What I was not familiar with too much was his information about consumerism. The numbers of how much we’re spending are outstanding, and the numbers only continue to rise. What I like most about this section were the graphs as it makes the information visible and stand out. I feel as if this information should be readily available to everyone in order to have a more informed America. We, as consumers, need to go in the opposite direction and not try to spend as much and not leave beyond our means. My favorite thing that I learned from Erik’s article was the idea of goods being “cradle to cradle” as that would be incredibly helpful, especially with sustainability. I just don’t think it is an easy objective for some as an unfortunate truth is that certain people simply don’t care about recycling. This is due in part to the media and politics. There are some that say recycling and doing other helpful things really don’t help at all, so this gets people down. I think people would get a reality check if they all did an ecological footprint chart. I know that when I did it, I knew immediately what I had to cut down on and make changes.
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