When you choosing your Christmas presents or preparing the Chrimstmas party, do u know:
. If you spend around $30 on chocolates and lollies, you'll be consuming 20kg of natural materials (even if the box of chocolates weighs only 1 kilogram) and 940 litres of water
. Every dollar you spend on new clothes consumes 20 litres of water and requires 3.4 square metres of land
. Every bottle of juice you drink consumes more than 50 bottles of fresh water for the processing
Source: Australian Conservation Foundation
It is pretty upset that we are now in the age of consumerism and materialism. People seldom consider the underlying environmental costs of the products they buy and forget about the scarcity of fresh water, clean air, land and resources. While the financial cost of Christmas is commonly measured, the environmental cost of Christmas spending has not before been calculated. Such ignorant is mainly blaming our consumptive culture. But the poor information given by the manufactures and service/products providers, as well as government policy on labelling, are also the fundamental causes that we cannot have informed choices about our spending. Things need to be changed but more than 200% efforts the governments and everyone need to input. Still a very very long way to go.
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