Overconsumption

[cotymcclung]

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[dondali14]

I do wonder when we started needing "stuff" more than God.

[brentisone]

I do not go for shopping malls, but the text in this clip might have been arrested a little longer, ti read it

[DragonAurora]

I wrote a paper on this subject; if anyone is interested in reading it, send me a message.

[Myfrogsnameisbob]

@DragonAurora Send it to me! :)

[TheRabchoun]

@DragonAurora I am ! can you send it to me ?

[isobodari1]

well time to invent unicycle like on southpark

[phillips78]

more on this issue on "overconsumpulation"

[crowbs90]

i'd be the biggest anti-consumerist i could if i could just find like-minded people. the problem is, it's such a fundamental part of our culture most people don't even get around to questioning it. so the reality is that even if you develop some really anti-consumerist beliefs and behaviours, most people will think you're crazy, trivialise what you hold dear, and go on living their stupid lives. it's plain depressing. yes, i am using a computer. yes, this was made on a computer. we're spent.

[crowbs90]

i'd be the biggest anti-consumerist i could if i could just find like-minded people. the problem is, it's such a fundamental part of our culture most people don't even get around to questioning it. so the reality is that even if you develop some really anti-consumerist beliefs and behaviours, most people will think you're crazy, trivialise what you hold dear, and go on living their stupid lives. it's plain depressing. yes, i am using a computer. yes, this was made on a computer. 

[allenlobo]

To the creator of this video - please will you define OVERCONSUMPTION?

If you told someone in 1900 AD in the US that in a 100 years, every family would have cars, use so much electricity and water, travel by trains and planes frequently, they'd think you were crazy, that it would simply not be sustainable.

If you told someone in the US in 1800 that the population would increase 15 times in 1800 from 5M to 75M by 1900, they'd think the newly formed republic would not survive it

Get my point?

[concoursboy]

@allenlobo and thus being I have survived yesterday assures me that I will survive tomorrow doing the same thing I did today.

[allenlobo]

@concoursboy

The point being that people consume more of a product (water, food, gas, housing, medicines etc.) because it is available at a lower price. It is available at a lower price because it can be produced cheaper due to technological innovation.

The best way to stop higher rates of consumption would therefore be to stop all research and development. We'd then be stuck at the same spot in time, with stagnant pricing and no higher consumption.

[903harman]

@allenlobo exactly! there is so much land not being used and people think we wont have enough room for everyone or we cant feed everyone. this is all bullshit!

take a look at russia. all the cities are scatters by rivers and so much land is going to waste.

[NicArgent9]

Had to pause this several times to read the big long factoids, and my reading speed is such that I can plow through a hundred pages in a couple of hours. You need to slow those parts down so people have time to read.

[NicArgent9]

Had to pause this several times to read the big long factoids, and my reading speed is such that I can plow through a hundred pages in a couple of hours. You need to slow those parts down so people have time to read.

[idiotkrati]

maybe self destruction is the answer

[Robsshot]

Do your part to stop overconsumption by starting with the ROOTS - or it won't change.

Join the zeitgeist movement

[DEW409]

Worthless environmentalist BS, I'm still waiting for Al Gore and/or Obama to stop flying evreywhere and living large in multiple mansions. Do as I say, not as I do. I guess they must not be all that worried, eh?

[concoursboy]

@DEW409 it all efficiency.

[imax1971]

This video is factually incorrect..

1) It states that 90% of the forest is due to resource depletion... Not even close to the truth

2) Electronics are not discarded "almost immediately after purchase"... I bet the person who made this video did so on a computer they have had for at least 2 years..

3) the average person would have to eat 3 and a 1/2 pounds of meat over 70 years to consume 7 1100 lb animals...

This vid is BS

[jadeforester]

@imax1971 @imax1971 - a 2-year old computer being thrown away IS "almost immediately after purchasse" - these products should last 20 years, not 2, but they're designed with what's called "planned obsolescence" which means they're made so that they break within a couple of years, usually 6months after any warrantee has run out, so that people buy new technology. A 2-year computer is only seen as "old" because the computer industry tells us it is so that we feel the need to buy a "new" one.

[NicArgent9]

@jadeforester Planned obsolescence isn't so much about getting things to break as about getting people to feel they need a new one ASAP. My Dell is over 10 years old, and is fine for me... but another person would probably deplore its "low" memory capacity, and would feel cramped working with Windows '95 - XP compatibilities. With cars, it's a new model every year so that 2-3 years later, the consumer is dissatisfied that their car doesn't have the latest features - they "need" a new one.

[bishopdante]

@NicArgent9

I still own most of the computers I've ever bought, and have never knowingly thrown away a CRT.

Nostalgia? Hoarding? I dunno, I just consider throwing away high technology, binning it, to be pretty barbaric. I rescue computers off the street whenever I can. Hehe.

[skuflix]

@bishopdante That's really cool, Nic, long live your salvaged computers. The youtube channel "StillUsing" is looking for people like you to come and share how you preserve older technology. Don't be fooled by their sarcastic tone, they're actually into anti consumerism.

[concoursboy]

@jadeforester that and people buy the newest and best because it is a statis symbol. How do I prove to the woman I get what they wants? resources to father her genes. I got money, shown with teh stuff I got and wear. Simple as that.

[jadeforester]

@imax1971

Do you know how long an animal that size lasts a family in a community that relies on hunting? I do: We eat 1 animal that size every year. That means we, as a family, could eat s of those animals in seven or eight years. On my own I could eat 7 of those animals in about 25 years - Which is a lot less than a lifetime.

I don't know much about deforestation so I won't comment. But I do about the others. I suggest you only make comments when you know what you're talking about.

[jadeforester]

@imax1971

I don't know much about deforestation so I won't comment. But I do about the others. I suggest you only make comments when you know what you're talking about.

[concoursboy]

@jadeforester 90percent of the oridginal, since whiteies landed  has been cut, but we are at the 1920's level of forrests now

[mormor39]

nicely done. very poetic but enlightening. I've got some vids that touch on similair stuff. on my page.

[teflonKONG09]

the liberator that destroys religion will realigned ower perception.

the liberator that destroys the Monetary system will set us free

athiests are soldiers of the civilized world.

[jacksparowv]

This monday was my first day at school after summer vacations. We had to introduce ourselves to the class, and say a thing we liked.

The girl in front of me said, "I like shopping"...

I was so sad to have to listen to that...

[mainmenu895]

jacksparowv, that is such a common behaviour... It sickens me nonetheless. Each time i see those shitty girls going to the mall to buy shitty clothes they'll use for a couple weeks and then throw away... Yesterday i saw a friend of mine with new shoes. And i asked him, why did he buy them? He had bought new ones about 2 weeks before that. He said "cuz they're cool". Modes... I think world governments should put a break to all this consumerist propaganda. This is a flea we have to stop.

[imax1971]

@jacksparowv Shopping is what keeps the economy going.. Shopping produces jobs... Shopping is what drives drives businesses to provide goods and manufacturing to thrive... Don't they teach economics at your school?

[Bizarrnonsense]

@imax1971 are you an official "go capitalism!"-fanboy /promoter or?

sure it does.. but if you dont give such luxourious shit too much sense it will stop developing and expanding till nirvana.. are you from one of those countries who eat shit and work for us all day long, not able to buy themselves.. well not even luxus but nutritions that keeps themselves healthy? or from a country where female babies get drowned for beeing not as productive as boys? i bet youre also just degenaritve ammi meat

[imax1971]

@Bizarrnonsense ???

[alittlebitfrail]

Fuck this. You made it on a computer. Be real with yourself.

[pathan92]

@alittlebitfrail Fuck you, you posted that comment with a computer, you're just a part of the machine.

[raponte1955]

@alittlebitfrail so what???

[JoebooSauce]

@alittlebitfrail

You are a douche. You realize how much knowledge has been imparted by this video? Stop criticizing and do something than try to justify your own drain on the world.

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[iogkgfjkikikpoygtytg]

wake up. the problem never was overconsumption. it always was overpopulation.

[Xakryn]

I was going to start out by calling you and idiot, but I realize I can't honestly cause I half agree with you. However, an overpopulated planet will over consume, so the problems are complimentary of each other. I do agree though, we need birth control in the drinking water.

[mankalabeat]

YOU WAKE UP!!! The point this video is trying to make is that the population that already exists has to make an effort to consume less!

[demexii1]

Overconsumption is good for the economy. The more people consume the more jobs there are. Otherwise we would have tons of unemployment.

[ldog50]

Somehow you must be confused sun, overconsumption leads to low quality goods flooding the market place, things with planned obsolescensce (meaning predetermined to be useless after it is used) being created to eventually make all the people use all forms of energy inefficiently. With over consumption comes groups of people with more power than others like corporations controlling men and women as employees, and when there isnt enough to consume those people are let go.

[MTCoblivsicas12345]

learn about the American Depression and the cycles

[Xakryn]

overconsumption will eventually kill us, plain and simple. The mold grows on the sandwich, and eats it until there's nothing left. Then the mold dies. Is that the legacy for the human race? Stop making excuses to buy meaningless shit at wal-mart.

[BurnsideStudios08]

I hate wal-mart.

[electricvelocity]

oops somehow the text got messed up. The video isn't unbased, religion is.

[electricvelocity]

i like the video, including the point about how we flock to the mall, but are you suggesting that people should be more religious? Over time, its only natural that society evolves away from religion not towards it, since its an and inaccurate institution. I find that part of the unbased video slightly offensive.

[azielce]

Agree, slides are transitioning too fast. Doesn't let the point sink in.

[dy7bf]

this was changing slides way to fast

[russianilpapa]

I really liked the point you were trying to make and would have like to shown this video in a presentation but the statistics were flashing way too fast

[gin8u]

didnt they tell you to allow enough time for people to read what you display. most of your statistic text disappeared before i was able to finish.

ps. your morphs (done in Flash) could've been A LOT smoother!!!

[mokovisual]

who did the music?