Reaching a sustainable lifestyle
Question from the Internet:
“What are some examples of humans unsustainable lifestyles, and why should we practice sustainable consumption and production patterns?”
Especially in Western societies, in “developed countries" our whole life is hard on reckless, artificially generated, excessive overconsumption.
Through a very sophisticated propaganda machinery — including marketing, media, social media, entertainment industry, celebrities — we are constantly brainwashed to consume what we don’t need, what we throw away shortly after we obtained them, and what we can’t afford.
It is very difficult to bring examples as it is difficult to find what is not excessive, surplus.
We — apart from a few places where people are still struggling to find for, shelter for themselves and the their families on a daily basis — have no idea what our true natural necessities are, as we act as the all-encompassing “Matrix" brainwashes us to do.
And all “developing countries" are thriving to emulate Western societies with a quantitative growth, hyped up consumption that is unbelievable. We can’t blame them, they also want to have their share from the must-have “treasures/pleasures” Westerners already have.
As a result our Human system is marching towards a seemingly inevitable self-destruction.
This unsustainable lifestyle, the blind overconsuming — seeing only the immediate personal profit nothing beyond — is self-destructive on multiple levels.
First of all it has no right to exist in a closed, integral Natural system where strict, unforgiving laws system the balance and homeostasis life, optimal development depends on.
Moreover we can see how much the more we consume, the more material possessions we accumulate, the unhappier, depressed, frustrated and angry we get as we realize that such aims, efforts don’t bring us the hoped for satisfaction, happiness in life.
Our Human purpose in life can’t be realized through “shopping therapy".
The excessive overconsumption will be dismantled by Nature regardless of what we try to do. The pandemic is just the first blow in this rebalancing process, and how many more, increasingly worse blows we will have to go through depends on how soon we come to our senses to learn the lessons.
At the same time we also need to identify what our truly Human purpose is in life — finding our predetermined, unique “cogwheel” role in Nature’s evolutionary system.
Through that we will fully understand the balance, “circle of life" in Nature, naturally attaining what our true, healthy, modern necessities and available resources are.