In my opinion, the most pressing global environmental issue facing us today is the wasting of resources, such as food, clothes, finite resources such as oil, etc. from immense consumerism. I believe this is one of the most pressing issues because of the outrageously exponential amount of waste that results from consumerism. Not only is the initial waste a problem due to things such as pollution and the fact that those things could go to others, but it has had multiple effects on various other environmental issues and has trickled down to an even worse problem. If I were given $100 billion by a benefactor like the Rockefeller Foundation, I would allocate the funds in a couple different ways concerning the issue(s) of consumerism and waste. I would use the money to first help raise awareness of and come up with prevention strategies to try and diminish immense consumerism and waste. In addition, I would want to create organizations that help use “waste” to give to other countries whom don’t even have anything to waste. Educating people on the issue and in turn using “wasteful” resources into useful things for others, I feel, would be an appropriate and beneficial way to deal with the results consumerism and waste has had on the (global) environment. While trying to address, educate, and prevent the source, I would simultaneously be creating organizations that will take the waste and results of consumerism that we have and turn them into something that isn’t waste. A lot of what is wasted in the first place shouldn’t be, and could be something so profound in the lives of others who don’t have anything to begin with.
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