Class-5

Our colloquium class had no field trip today. Instead we stayed inside the class and learned many new things through videos and lectures. One of videos we watched was about consumerism. I learned the definition of Consumerism. It is a social and economic order that encourages the purchase of goods and services in great amounts. The video broke down exactly how this works and how the government tries to get us to buy goods that we don't even need! Or they will make products that are so cheap that it will lure you in to buy them and then very soon after the product will break. Most likely when your product breaks you will go buy another and another and the flow continues. During this class we also discussed our Ecological Footprint. An Ecological Footprint is defined by the measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystem. We went through as a class a set of questions to figure out what our ecological footprint is. Our class's ecological footprint came out to be 8 worlds! Thats terrible! That means with the amount of resources we use or don't use that it would take 8 worlds to fill what we consume on a  daily basis. At the end of class we got into our groups for our Plan B 4.0 and discussed further our presentations that are due in 2 weeks.