Just this afternoon,
I was typing out a particular social media post on sustainable fashion.
For one reason, I found myself searching for images of landfills in Africa that have come up due to dumping of “wasted clothes”.
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A question came into my head.
“We can’t breathe anymore. When do we end the endless consumerism”?
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The people who make all these things we buy, do so simply because we provide an endless stream of market for them.
To add onto that, we are often trapped in the web of advertising whereby we are constantly bombarded with adverts of “new” items for sale, that have just been made to “suit our needs”!
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What happens when these items don’t satisfy our needs in that time that we have them?
Shall we not keep buying item after item, looking for this mysterious satisfaction?
Or can we actually stay still in the moment and look around for creative ways we can mold what we already have, into what we can actually use in the present-day?
We never use many of these items we buy.
Where do they end up?
In landfills, in very remote areas of the world.
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Do you honestly think we can breathe anymore?
The piles just keep getting bigger and our consuming doesn’t seem to be stopping, either!
Do we just get used to the consumerism available today?
What do we do then?