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Big ideas that changed the world: Consumerism

Our environment has been changed because of consume. Follow by the increasing of the population, the more we need and more we produce. It takes a great number of resources from our planet.  The increasing of the produce leads the environmental problem. The temperature is increasing, the icecaps melting and sea levels rising. We are losing our lands by year.

Industrial revolution has the biggest influence on it. The mount manufacture good appear. Price of products is decline. More and more people could afford. Luxury are started take into consider.  Product is no longer being the thing you need it more about what they let you feel.  It starts too related to our deeps feelings, our emotion, even our identities and then trend to our desire. The focus of design is also changed.

Every year we buy more products that we think we need using more energy and resource creating more waste. However, we are consumerism our self our planet.

The development of the world is not fair. The china use only a decade achieve the level which American use two century.  However, the developing of some country brings the impact to the third world.  The need of the product leads the demand of labour. It became the reason of Sweatshops, child labour and dangerous working conditions.

It seems like we know what is going on our life and we need to change. As a designer, we play an important role on this system. We are design what we going to produce. The sustainable products are what we need. Using less energy and bring less impact on the environment.

Three take home message:

1.       Over consumerism is the reason of the environmental crisis.

2.       The development of some countries brings the problem to the third world.

3.     The ture happiness are difficult to achieve.