I think you are very right about this; when I did the carbon footprint activity, my 'home' section of the total was much lower than my region's. The reason this is is because we don't use excessive heating and air conditioning, and we only have two phones between the three of us. We have one computer and one TV, and there's only one iPod in the whole house. Compared to other people here, this is a lot less. It is possible to get by with just this; no matter what other people appear to think.

Hi Elizabeta:
I totally agree with you. There are enormously differences between our real needs and the material things we buy because of trend. We not need technology or so called comforts to survive. I´m not underestimate the technology advances but some people are really crazy about have the latest apparats and they don´t even realize that other people are suffer from hunger and live in extreme poverty. We became blind and selfish and it causes that any changes arise. If everyone offer a bit of help to those people who really need it instead of buy luxury things we could approach a better world. It should definitely contribute to create a more equal world.

I agree with you aswell, the whole economic system is somewhat built upon that the consuments (us) will allways want more. A new tv, more clothes, latest phone…
We truly have a society of mass consumption and when people doesn't buy as much the economy “crash” and some people loose their jobs. I dont think that this is the way it should be, just that we mustn't just change our behavior or tame our desires but the whole system. We have to in some way change our economig developement too one that goes hand in hand with a suistanable way of life rather than the one today that destroys the environment.
And i guess a good way of doing that is as consuments show the companies that we want a change, by either buying more environmetally friendly products or tell that we'd rather have something of good quality that lasts longer than buying a bunch of things that gets broken fast