Overconsumption Is Costing Us The Earth And Human Happiness By Celia Cole

Overconsumption is critically damaging the Earth with toxic chemicals from pollution of companies’ factories. Factories being built for production efforts to fulfill the market. The factories create waste, but they do not use any efficient way to dispose of the waste. The companies decide on cutting cost of developing to ways to safely dispose of the waste. The factories use cheap easy ways to dispose of waste through dumping waste in the rivers and streams. The effects of not taking control of pollution leads to people getting sick. There are some solutions to ease the pollution. “Overconsumption is Costing us the Earth and Human Happiness” by Celia Cole describes many areas where overconsumption is bigger issue than people even realize. People should take more consideration of protecting the Earth from companies that take the easy way to save money.
The factories tend to use too much materials that get wasted. The companies usually try to implement recycling efforts to show good fate with the community; but, the companies keep a lot of secrets to carve overall cost of building products. Companies tend to buy land that is distant from cities; if, they are planning to dump waste in waterways or landfills. Some factories are built in cities where the factories use incinerators with huge smog chimneys that pollutes the …show more content…
The employees work with chemicals in hazardous environments in the factories that can cause cancer and other diseases with those chemicals. People that usually on the outside develop respiratory problems as asthma, one common effect from air pollution. People that live by rivers, streams, and lakes if the factories are dumping toxic chemicals into waterways that poison a food source for people. People starve by not eating the fish for examples as lead, heavy metals, or mercury poisoning in the fish. There are remedies to prevent those