Sustainable World

The American Lifestyle is enviable. We have a decent minimum wage; items of

pleasure and convenience line the shelves of twenty-four hour super centers.

Our success as a society, economically and, hence, culturally, is extremely

pervasive. Across both oceans and both borders our products are for sale and

English is spoken. We have a low infant mortality rate, long life expectancy,

and access to advanced medical science. We are free to speak our minds,

organize, travel uninhibited, and of course, choose how we live our lives. We

have more in the way of consumables and convenience products than any other

culture, now or in the past. However, with all this economic success and

freedom comes freedoms oft-ignored sister, responsibility.

With a culture of consumption, certain problems exist. Our environment, that

which we depend on for our very existence: air to breath, water to drink, soil

to produce food on.is decomposing. Most Americans couldnt tell you where their

food comes from, let alone recognize edible plants in their own backyard. We

seemingly prefer the convenience of

Freedom is a precious gift, and the only way to protect it is to be an informed

to remember, that with the technology that allows convenience and scientific and

consumed (and paid for) and makes you a healthier, stronger person for the

earth for our benefit we must treat it responsibly. And happiness and an

effort to buy those products, we feed the recycled goods industry and take our

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