Greed is glancing at the power-strip under your desk and consciously viewing each and every occupied outlet. Your eyes follow the twisting veins that lead straight to the source that is pumping, pumping away, sucking the fuel from a source you probably could not describe in depth if you tried. To unplug one of the appliances would be to compromise flow and order of one's life. Necessary? No. Greedy? By, all means yes.
Waste is grabbing a cup of coffee from Starbucks every morning before work year after year. The smell of coffee beans must make the environment cringe a little bit knowing that there are individuals on automatic pilot who grab their venti lattes in the same green and black cups every morning simply to discard of the cup in the nearest trash receptacle.
Waste with a side of greed is having individual items from a grocery store placed in separate plastic bags for the sake of not mixing fresh and non-perishable items. When did we all become so unaware? When did we stop caring?
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Our apathy most likely occured gradually. We take our technology and resources for granted. To think that most Americans have a dozen electronics hooked up to their outlets really demonstrates how wasteful we have become. I also think that most people don't realize how much is too much. It becomes routine and many simply don't stop to thinking if anything their doing may be in excess.
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point that we HAVE stopped caring about being wasteful and greedy. We are, like mentioned in class, a NOW generation and we do what we feel like is benefiting us the most. It is sad to admit, but we are a very selfish generation.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really good analysis of what greed is. We have stopped caring about being greedy, that is true, because we are selfish. We choose to do whatever benefits us, rather than everyone as a whole. No one thinks about their actions being so great that it would change the world, but if everyone changed, the world would change.
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