Essay #2

Introduction

There are five steps of how people get the stuff and from where. First step is extraction, which means taking the reassures from natural like wood, coal and water. Second step is production, in this step the toxic chemicals added to natural resources to make any stuff. Toxic chemicals make pollution on the air and it’s dangerous for people when they use a stuff mixed with toxic chemicals. After production the third step is distribution which mean selling the stuff cheaply and quickly to produce now stuff. Fourth step is consumption, for example my friend by a new car, I must buy a car better than his car. Last step is disposal, all the stuff will dispose; sometimes it’s dumped or burned. Some stuff we can recycle it, but recycling it’s not solving the problem. If we burn the stuff the toxic chemicals will spread in the air.

 

Production

In production step, the workers in the industry add the natural resources to toxic chemicals to make a toxic product. The production system in the industry use a lot of amount of natural resources and chemical materials and they use high energy to mix the natural resources with the chemical materials, so the pollution on the air is increasing and very dangers and unhealthy for people in the industry and other people who live near the industry. “The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people’’ (Karl Marx, 1880).

Extraction

Extraction is taking the metals and many materials from the nature like, wood, water, iron, gold, and many things to use it and some industries to make stuff. The problem is people are using more than they need from earth resources. Another problem when they take the resources to the industry, the pollution in the air become more and more and people who works in the industry there health become bad more than people  whose extract the resources from the nature. People must reduce using the resources to solve this problem in all countries around the world.

Distribution

Distribution depends on transporting and the object is selling the stuff quickly and cheap. They make the price down and people will buy the stuff dramatically and after they put new stuff in the shop, so people will go to buy the new stuff again. In the business they should keep the price down, they don’t the real cost of stuff.  So, they can make their stuff going around the world by cheap price.

Disposal

Disposal is the last step of stuff, after the stuff are damaged people through it in trash. The damaged stuff should disposed somewhere, some stuff are dumped or burned and some of them through in the sea. This is also very dangerous because it’s increase the pollution in the air especially when they burn the stuff the toxic chemicals go out in the air. We need new solutions for the damaged stuff like recycling, even if the recycling is not the perfect solution because the pollution will increase more, so they should look for a new solution.

Consumption

Consumers should change their behavior, but changing behavior it’s not enough. People when they shopping sometimes are buying extra things they don’t need it. Some people when they saw a thing better than which they have they think they should buy the better thing, like if someone saw a new car with his neighbor he got jealous and he buy a new car. This is a very dangerous thing in people behavior and they should change it and buy things only they really need it. “Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases” (William Shenstone, 1750).

Consumerism in UAE

 
 

The United Arab Emirates has become an important oil and natural gas producer and ranks seventh in the world for both proven oil and proven natural gas reserves. Revenue from these resources has allowed significant social and economic development in the areas of finance, business, education, transportation, housing, health and welfare. As a result, Dubai is gaining a reputation for being the trading, financial and tourist hub of the emirates, while Abu Dhabi is trying to use now technologies and build industries of green energy. While the construction mega-projects and the petroleum, tourism and banking sectors of Dubai and Abu Dhabi grab media headlines, it is the small and medium-sized enterprises that constitute about 90% of all businesses in the federation.

Conclusion

In my opinion, this subject is very dangerous especially for people health. Governments should build the industries outside cities or places where there are no body lives. Also they should do their best to reduce the pollution on the air, and toxic chemicals on the stuff. Every problem has a solution, so we must find solution to live a good life.

Name: Mohamed Salem Taleb Almaamari

CIQ

H00232682

Words: 800

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