These are excerpt facts from the book Affluenza by John De Graaf. I would HIGHLY recomend it to anyone. Its about Americas over consumption. "Definition: affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, dept, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more." "In each of the past four years more Americans declared personal bankruptcy than graduated from college. Our annual production of solid waste would fill a convoy of garbage trucks stretching halfway to the moon. We have twice as many shoping centers as public schools. We now work more hours each year than do the citizens of any other country, including Japan. Though we comprise only 4.7 percent of the earth's people, we account for twenty-five percent of its global warming greenhouse gas emissions. Ninety-five percent of our workers say they wish they could spend more time with their families. Forty percent of our lakes and streams are too polluted for swimming or fishing. Our CEOs now earn 400 times as much as average workers, a tenfold increase since 1980. Since 1950, we Americans have used up more resources than everyone who ever lived on earth before then." This book was a true wake-up call for me. Check it out and tell me what your impressions were. :flag:
