Monday, June 29, 2009
Fair Trade(Comment)
We call this is fair, because this trade is equal for everyone and working balance. By the improving of globalization, fair trade is becoming more and more common and which is used to generally. Fair trade has benefits not only on farmers, but also on workers, consumers. Famers are big winners, they are able to make more money form the fair trade, and which can developed business skills. For example, if the products have a high quality, farmers can receive a better price. In fact, lots of farmers lose their price by the unfair trade that is why Fair Trade is mentioned nowadays. I think that is the unfair competition in the market. We found that lots of companies want to have the goods with low price and high quality. And producers want to earn money; they have to reduce the price of their products. However, that is absolutely unfair, good products can not receive a good price. Consequently, fair trade gives everyone a balance deal system, although, that is a challenge, everyone has their responsibility.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Pay for Future
Before the article, I would suggest you to watch the video ‘The Story of Stuff’. The video give us a idea about where are the ‘stuff’ comes from, and how we consume with these ‘stuff’. The web address is http://www.storyofstuff.com/
More and more stuff are made by useless, by folks’ vanity. We do have lots of desires which are able to achieve by consuming stuff. However, the only thing we have to face is weather those stuffs are necessary or indispensable. In fact, we are affected by our environment or the atmosphere which we are living. We hope to catch and keep the trace of the fashion. Definitely, we do not want to somebody who said you suck in our life. That is why we hope and try to buy more.
Consequently, where are the stuffs come from, firstly, they are not exist in the shopping mall at the beginning. All the stuffs are made from variety resources, timber, metal, stone, wool, chemical production etc. To make the stuff means to collect the materials. Not all the materials are in the same area, people need to extract from all over the world. Actually, some developed countries prefer import resources from developing countries which were called the third world for example the timber. Furth more, production also exhaust huge of pollution gas like the dioxin. So, a large numbers of resources are used and huge of toxic gas are exhausted. We are running out of resource and using too much stuff. In the world, one third of resource were consumed, we are cutting down trees so fast. For example, United States has 40% of water which is undrinkable and the country which has 5% population in the world but need to 30% of resources. If all the countries’ situations like this, we may need 3-5 planets to live, but the point is we just have one.
Goods are bought and used into visuals for spiritual satisfaction. When we saw the national happiness line, we could figure out the satisfaction are not as well as before any more. Folks work to buy but that not enough, 3,000 new advertisements are made everyday that lead people to buy a new stuff. Nevertheless, what are the stuffs going to be, 99% of them are becoming trash, not 20% or 50%, exactly is 99%. After we lose the passion of our stuff, we burned and bury down into land. As a matter of fact, we do have another way to deal this obstacle that is recycling. Frankly speaking, a big problem of recycling is not all the countries have this awareness. In China, garbage bin is more important than recycle bin. Even though, lots of areas do not support those things. However only recycling is not enough. The final goal is no recycling; everything can be used as 100%.
At least, today, we have not seen such a terrible problem, but we do consume the resources for future. What about our next generation, what should they do after we used out of the resources. Although, recycling is a reasonable option, there are still have lots of objects can not be recycle. Rethink what is you needed and why you want it before you buy something. As it is said, buy green, buy fair, buy local, buy used and most important, and buy less.
More and more stuff are made by useless, by folks’ vanity. We do have lots of desires which are able to achieve by consuming stuff. However, the only thing we have to face is weather those stuffs are necessary or indispensable. In fact, we are affected by our environment or the atmosphere which we are living. We hope to catch and keep the trace of the fashion. Definitely, we do not want to somebody who said you suck in our life. That is why we hope and try to buy more.
Consequently, where are the stuffs come from, firstly, they are not exist in the shopping mall at the beginning. All the stuffs are made from variety resources, timber, metal, stone, wool, chemical production etc. To make the stuff means to collect the materials. Not all the materials are in the same area, people need to extract from all over the world. Actually, some developed countries prefer import resources from developing countries which were called the third world for example the timber. Furth more, production also exhaust huge of pollution gas like the dioxin. So, a large numbers of resources are used and huge of toxic gas are exhausted. We are running out of resource and using too much stuff. In the world, one third of resource were consumed, we are cutting down trees so fast. For example, United States has 40% of water which is undrinkable and the country which has 5% population in the world but need to 30% of resources. If all the countries’ situations like this, we may need 3-5 planets to live, but the point is we just have one.
Goods are bought and used into visuals for spiritual satisfaction. When we saw the national happiness line, we could figure out the satisfaction are not as well as before any more. Folks work to buy but that not enough, 3,000 new advertisements are made everyday that lead people to buy a new stuff. Nevertheless, what are the stuffs going to be, 99% of them are becoming trash, not 20% or 50%, exactly is 99%. After we lose the passion of our stuff, we burned and bury down into land. As a matter of fact, we do have another way to deal this obstacle that is recycling. Frankly speaking, a big problem of recycling is not all the countries have this awareness. In China, garbage bin is more important than recycle bin. Even though, lots of areas do not support those things. However only recycling is not enough. The final goal is no recycling; everything can be used as 100%.
At least, today, we have not seen such a terrible problem, but we do consume the resources for future. What about our next generation, what should they do after we used out of the resources. Although, recycling is a reasonable option, there are still have lots of objects can not be recycle. Rethink what is you needed and why you want it before you buy something. As it is said, buy green, buy fair, buy local, buy used and most important, and buy less.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
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