Global Market Economy

It is crazy to think that 50 percent of the world is living in total poverty. A big part of this problem has to do with the way our economy and government runs. In the video on “stuff” a big part of the discussion was on how extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal affect our earth. Dumping trash in a different country may save the united stated from suffering from toxic chemicals and a change in our environment – for a little while – if makes life for others in different countries difficult. They live in poverty because the toxic chemicals from trash are ruining their communities and ways of life.

Helping the 50 percent of the world living in total poverty is a hard problem to tackle. One of the most basic ways I can think of to help them is to “go green.” I didn’t know much about going green until I came to pacific Lutheran university and they are all for recycling and taking care of our environment. If we tried to go green it would take away some of the toxics and the affects they are having on everyone’s lives.

Instead of putting money towards trying to get people to buybuybuy and shopshopshop we need to educate them on what is available and affordable in the market. What if safe for them to buy and live off of according to their lifestyle. Our global market economy is messed up. Each phase extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal effects our lives in some way. In a way that is not good for us. Things we can do to change this is for one not put chemicals in to production. If you put chemicals in things we are bringing them in our homes and basically welcoming them in to our lives. As if was said in the video human breast milk has the most toxic chemicals found in anything. We need to save forests, clean production and take back our government.