Calling All Consumer Cows! It's time for a new economic paradigm...Moooo!

Calling All Consumer Cows! It's time for a new economic paradigm...Moooooooooo!

Are those new Jimmy Chu's (cud)?

It's time to create a new and improved consumer culture in this country and the world. Our current system is based on unchecked exponential growth, which even if you don't do the math is recognisebly unsustainable considering there is a limited supply of consumers, materials, and resources on Earth. What will happen to the Earth if China and the rest of Asia becomes as consumer driven as the US?

Manufacturers and companies forecast budgets with the understanding that their companies must produce and sell X percent plus 3% (the rate of inflation) more than the previous year or shrivel up and die. To put it in a theoretically simple fashion: once everyone on earth has an IPhone, in their pocket, a Coke in their hand, Nikes on their feet where do you go from there? Industrialists will tell you throw it all in the land fill and buy Iphoney, Coke with chocolate sprinkles, and Nike Air Jordan Jr.s.

Manufacturers need to start creating energy efficient and earth friendly products like solar refrigerators, as an example, that have zero fossil fuels used in their manufacturing and no utility cost associated with its use. We need to create infrastructure that works harmoniously with our environment and doesn't disintegrate when it rains and snows.

 

Instead of buying 'New' consider buying 'Vintage'. Instead of buying at Walmart try Goodwill or Salvation Army. Need an outfit for work how about going to a consignment store. Instead of investing in the stock market why not invest in a micro loan program like Kiva. We need to rework our materialistic desires and focus them on harmonious living and not business as usual and stagnant partisan conflict.

 

                        

 

                            

We need to stop pining for the past days of engorging ourselves with needless consumer products that only pile up in our self storage units because our homes are filled to capacity with junk(What happened to our culture that resulted in our having to pay rent to store crap we don't use). We don't need to jump start our economy by placing ourselves back in the place that put us in our current situation to begin with.

                  

 

Do we really need 20 varieties of male enhancement drugs whose only difference is the name of the product (what if the resources used in R&D, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of needlessly rendundant pharmaceuticals went into finding a cure for Alzheimer's instead)? Do we really need to foster war and conflict in the world just so we have a market for our Bradley's? Why are we giving billions of dollars to car manufacturers just so they can make more fossil fuel guzzling shuttle bugs that fall apart imediately after their warranties run out in 3 years?

Creating sustainable systems is what we need to be focusing on and not the next quarters profit margin. Its' time to get rid of the old paradigm of pointless for profit consumption and start working on a system that educates our children on the great potential for the future and not the hopeless CNN picture of the planet brought to you by their sponsors.

In the spirit of sustainability lets put our internal consumer cows to pasture and find a new economy to sustain us. A future that doesn't profit from deprivation but cooperation.  

 

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