Over Consumption In The Film 'The American President' Leo

Our economy has been based on materialistic resource. Individuals see our environment as a small piece of importance, but they’re wrong. We entirely depend on our environment with everything we do in our daily lives. In the film “The American President’ Leo is unhappy with the environmental issues and is trying to convey his ideas to the president. Individuals who are concerned over our consumption have contributed to recycling, but the percentage of those people are about 4%. The other 96% are continuing adding to our pollution and waste of resource. To make a big impact on our environment more than 50% should contribute. Cars and factories play a big role in our pollution, causing Global Warming. People don’t notice the way they take advantage of transportation. Seeing people walk to a 2 min store destination is never seen, people prefer to drive their vehicles. Cutting down trees and destroying environments is not only affecting us but innocent species as well. Our lives are very different from families in the 1990’s and

Beliefs are that we over consume because we have passed our development standard as a country. What exactly is over consumption? A tendency to over use material possessions is a short way of defining over consumption. We over utilize mostly everything including food, natural resources, and energy. All these factors slowly but surely affect our daily lives. There is a documentary, “affluenza”, which directly focuses on statistics and specific things that we over use. The video states “the bible does not say buy a new Cadillac each month, it says control our money within our home.” People believe that the more we over consume our natural resources. The more environment will decline in wild life animal’s home “over consumption is the mother of all environmental problems.” If the global population would consider recycling we would not have such a big over consumption