TRANSFORMING CULTURES

After reading the STATE OF THE WORLD 2010: Transforming Cultures by the World Watch Institute, I realize that our economy should be about sustainability and restoration of our fragile planet, not greed and never-ending growth. When it comes down to it, we can buy what’s no longer available: clean water and air, healthy soil, a vibrant local community, a safe place to raise a family.

Pope Benedict's message has the same perspectice as what in the  State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability says. Without an intentional cultural shift , one that values sustainability not consumerism , no pledges from government or advances in technology will be enough to prevent the preventable calamity of climate change and ecological collapse, destined to forever change how we live on this planet. We must rediscover a story of living and working, quite different from the present consumption and material wealth-driven one that often defines meaning, satisfaction and acceptance for so many of us, with dire consequences for ecological systems and the billions of people who have been called the “have-nots” in the so-called developing world.

State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability is an insightful and powerful exploration of our culture, calmly calling for a peaceful cultural revolution and offering 60 distinct voices for change from today’s leading sustainability visionaries. In six succinct chapters; education, business, the media, government, traditions and social movements. And the role each must play in redefining the story of sustainability.

inspiredeconomist.com/2010/01/27/book-review-state-of-the-world-2010/

State of the World 2010 goes to say that while human population grows bigger the consumption grows three times more. in the book it was quoted that “Consumption has grown dramatically over the past five decades, up 28 percent from the $23.9 trillion spent in 1996 and up sixfold from the $4.9 trillion spend in 1960,” writes Erik Assadourian, a Senior Researcher at Worldwatch Institute and Project Director of State of the World 2010. “Some of this increase comes from the growth in population, but human numbers only grew by a factor of 2.2 between 1960 and 2006…People in the United States alone spent $9.7 trillion on consumption [in 2006], accounting for 32 percent of global expenditures with only 5 percent of global population.” 

all I can say is that these consumerism should be regulated and we should stop consuming more electric waste as possible like the gadgets that we are buying nowadays because in time, these gadget are the one who will destroy us, who will destroy this planet and time will come that we could not be able to have a cleaner and greener environment just like as we have when these are not yet invented. so start RECYCLING! REUSING! AND REDUCING!