Psychology of over-consumption

Why do we consume more than what we really need?

Greed, peer pressure, weakness, fear, inferiority complex..., you name it. The more we possess the more we think that we have right to consume more than the others. Let's admit it : This has no end.

Whatever the motivation of our over-consumption is; it is a combination of limited world resources, time and labor that we waste in the end.

As long as there is 'hunger' and 'poverty' in this world, personally I do not think that we have a right to over-consume or waste. Not even a bit!

A must read book about the topic is : 'When Corporations Rule the World' by David C. Korten.

Let's think about
-how we can prevent over-consumption and
-how we can generate tangible and financial resources out of over-consumption and
-how we can transfer these resources to certain disadvantaged regions and groups in the world.

Let's minimize our consumption! Personal, institutional and governmental!

TIRED

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two-
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.

Langston Hughes