CONSUMERISM
The website I have chosen is entitled ‘An American self portrait’ which is a fitting title to what the author has done, which shows cleverly the shocking extent that Americans over consume by putting it into pictures of all the waste they produce such as the airlines figures of how many plastic and paper cups they go through every few hours. “Plastic Cups, 200860x90" Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.”
Although this website doesn’t analyse and comment upon the issues that are problematical of consumerism I think that the pictures echo the problem in its own way that does not need any words, as the figures and the accompanying pictures makes it shocking for someone to visualise the full extent of how much waste they go through and consumerism particularly of SUV’s bought in 2004. The picture depicting this is quite astonishing “Valve Caps, 200610x25 feet in five vertical panels. Depicts 3.6 million tire valve caps, one for each new SUV sold in the US in 2004.”
I found this website very eye opening into realising just how bad and vast our consumerism can be when putting everyone’s contribution together. It really makes you question how much you consume yourself and its effect upon the environment particularly by looking at the picture of the plastic bottles that America goes through every five minutes (two million!).
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