WS 1 Questioning Consumption p. 32 Paul DiStefano

This article addresses the points that we talk much about in lecture, and that is consumption. As Americans we have always been about “stuff.” We think that the more “stuff” we have, the more successful we are. This is a way of life that we have to break away from. We are at the point where our world is getting smaller and smaller and the only way to keep from destroying it, is to consume less. Consuming is obviously very important and we need to do it in order to survive, but we have to know when we are consuming too much. We have to consume only the amount that we need, and less of what we want.