Eradicating a Mindset of Wastefulness: Ensuring Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns

More than 95% of actively publishing scientists believe that climate change via global warming is occurring (NASA, 2017). Across the world, people live without adequate access to food and water. Humans are polluting water faster than it can be recycled by rivers and lakes, yet less than 3% of the earth’s water is drinkable. Despite this galling reality, insufficient action has been made to switch to green energy by the greatest greenhouse gas producing countries in the world, and we see no major movements to improve the condition of the Earth’s water. According to Feeding America (2017), an estimated 25 to 40% of food that is grown and transported in the United States will never be consumed. This seems like a wide variety of issues, but they are all spawned by a single lack of global initiative: a mindset of wastefulness.