Economic Growth or Save The Planet?

When government leaders in the world say to us that we have to continue to strive for economic growth and they also ask us to do whatever we can so save the planet and halt global warming, I feel like asking...which admonition do they really want us heed?

The only way to save the world is to slow down spending, teach people to recycle stuff, or repair stuff instead of always replacing broken appliances, educate people to not want so many material products so that we will use less natural resources which continue to heavily pollute with toxins and waster products which harm the Earth as well as all living things.

But when you do this (buy less), you will slow down the economy, which people also don't want...so as far I can see, unless leaders in the world are willing to entertain the notion of slowing down economic growth, their calls for all of us to save the planet are just LIP SERVICE!

Without the implementation of an earnest plan to do whatever we need to do to save our environment, our planet will continue to get more polluted and more depleted of natural resources and species until the earth become inhospitable for human life.

That is why we have to do our own part to buy less, use less, waste less, produce less waste products, reduce emissions etc.,

Check out this video to understand why we have to do something on an individual basis. We have to collectively get our leaders to really take the issue of environment very seriously.

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