94 Pics From ‘Anti Consumption’ That Show Exactly What’s Wrong With The World (New Pics)
As easy (and understandable) as it is to complain about paper straws and the like, the truth is that it’s overall a new positive to not create trash that will outlive multiple generations of humans. However, the bad news is that we all have a long way to go.
The “Anticonsumption” online group shows the environmental effects of producing, moving, and buying too much stuff through memes and insightful posts. Hopefully, these images might be some good food for thought, so get comfortable, be sure to upvote the posts that caught your eye and comment your thoughts below.
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My Haven
Came Across This On Facebook
Exactly
The same hip cynicism can be applied to any green technology that is not green-washing. The only groups this attitude benefits is the oil-extraction and motor vehicle industries so they won't need to put any effort into going green.
Looking at all the examples here might lead someone to despair, so it’s worth also highlighting that it’s not all doom and gloom. For example, just this week (November of 2024) Australian scientists have developed a method to recycle old textiles into concrete. The fashion industry and fast fashion in particular create mountains of waste, so this is a great step forward.
Remember, many of us purchase cheap clothing that tends to not even last a year, creating monumental water waste for products that end up in landfills at the end of the day. This is a good and sustainable way to turn that junk into a considerably more valuable commodity, construction materials.
True True True
"The Heroes We Deserve"
Because Of The Anticonsumption Mindset, I Have So Much More Respect For Someone Driving A Normal-Sized Old Truck Than A Brand New Gigantic One
Speaking of emissions, researchers from the University of Massachusetts are working on “agrivoltaics,” a method to help farmers utilize even more of their farmland. The crop? Energy, gathered from solar panels placed across the land. Farming does come with its own emissions, but let's face it, we need food, so might as well make it more efficient.
Local Funeral Home Offers This $85 Cardboard Casket. What A Great Way To Not Waste Money And Resources
My Mother's Blender, Still Choochin Just Fine After 4 Decades Of Use, With All The Original Parts
Made A New Cat Scratch Pad From Trash
You may have noticed that behind most of these developments are researchers and scientists. It’s easy to get lost in the promises of green entrepreneurs, but at the end of the day, it’s research, both privately funded and publicly funded that is going to end up helping our environment.
Blue Shell The 1%
It’s All Of Our Responsibility, As Inhabitants Of Earth, To Reduce The Impact We Make Upon It! If You Love This Earth, And Want To Make It A Better Place, The First Place To Start Is Living And Shopping More Sustainably! Creating Less Waste Is The First Step In Making Our Earth Healthy Again
Yikes
Vaping is stupid and this is super stupid. This must be a bad joke or a nightmare.
This Mother’s Day Ad I Received In The Mail Made Me Sad
Your Life Has Already Been Designed
Which Would You Rather: Cheap Clothes, Or A Habitable Planet?
We had a couple of decades to fix the crisis in the 70's. (Thanks Reagan /s) A decade or so to mitigate the crisis in the 90's or not hit any tipping points. Now we have a 'decade' to keep the crisis from becoming 'too bad'
As Seen Elsewhere
Pulled From A Local Pet Stores Dumpster
A Book From The 70s Based On A Computer Model Based On Just A Few Inputs Roughly Predicted The Next 50 Years, We're At The Brink Of Ecological Breakdown, Billions Live In Dire Poverty And The Rich Own More Than Half Of The World's Wealth. If That's Not An Alarming Bell, I Don't Know What Is
There will come a point where the impoverished will no longer have money to buy from the rich, and the whole thing will just collapse. I'd hope that the issues will get solved before it comes to that, but looking at the world's current state...
Should This Be Implemented Throughout The World?
"Should This Be Implemented Throughout The World?" You mean offering paying jobs to homeless people to help them get back on their feet? I realize picking up garbage isn't a dream job for most, but it's a start to get them food, a place to stay and be able to look at other jobs that won't see them as "homeless" but as actual "potential employees"
Pretty Much Sums It Up
From My Days Working In A College Dining Hall
Now There Are "Disposable" Vapes You Can Play Games On
Aside from being even more wasteful than the already egregious disposable vape, this thing is clearly aimed at children (and others whose brain hasn't developed past a certain point) and is designed to try to make vaping even more addictive. Vaping products should be legally required to be boring and uncool. They're already d***s. We don't need to make them more exciting.
My Wife With A $4 Toy Basket
"Work, Consume, Die!"
Also enter some unfulfilling relationship with someone who kinda tolerates you and produce more workers for the future, if possible.
The Weight Of Different Breeds Of Chicken Over Their Lifespan
The natural lifespan of chickens is about 7 years, but some chickens have been known to live up to 15 years. On production farms, chickens are killed when their productivity declines, i.e. at about 1.5 years of age.
Prime Day Be Like
The Recycling Shop Near Me Has Free Used Paints And Chemicals!😊
good if you have small things to paint, I guess. But for a whole wall? or multiple rooms?
This Is A Great Incentive To Get More People Recycling And Cleaning Our Earth! However, We Must Keep Working To Limit Our Plastic Production And Live Sustainably!
♻️a Drain In Karachi, Pakistan. Hard Work Can Go A Long Way In Cleaning This Earth! Use Less Waste And Work On Picking Up Litter During Your Day! Live And Shop Sustainably ♻️
Shows How Outrageous Pricing Has Gotten, But At Least This Is A Small Step Towards Sustainable Consumerism
Apparently OP didn't pay attention when they explained what "sustainable consumerism" is. Average light-vehicle fuel efficiency doubled in the 1974-2024 time frame. Cars 10 years or older are about 10-15% less efficient in fuel consumption, generating 1.5X the CO2. It is just considering ICE, this dramatically improves if ce consider hybrids or EV. If you drive 80k miles on a 15-years-old vehicle the extra pollution exceeds the environmental impact of building a new mid-sized sedan. "Sustainable consumerism" would be favoring fuel efficient vehicles and easing transition to less polluting technologies.
We're Doomed
The Irony Of These Items Is Too Much
Sushi Place Put My California Rolls In A Tupperware Container I Brought Them!
But I’m A Creep 🎶
Surely They Would
"And what good does it do you to own the stars?" "It does me the good of making me rich." "And what good does it do you to be rich?" "It makes it possible for me to buy more stars, if any are discovered." - Antoine de Saint Éxupery, The little prince
Courtesy Of A Canadian Grocery Chain
We Can Do It Again!
2 Billion Dollar Home In Mumbai Built On Orphanage Land Worth 10 M, Sold For 2.5m, Overlooking Slums
That's the building of those a******s who recently had the wedding for several hundred million.
Five Below Propoganda
What Was The Point Of The Plastic Bag Ban If They're Simply Going To Rebrand Them?
The good plastic bags are still better than the single use (and the not even an entire single use, break immediately, completely useless) bags that can't be reused. Even if it's technically identical to the disposable bag, if people are actually using it multiple times, it makes a difference.
This Smoothie Place I Went To Gives You Mason Jars To-Go, And Fills It Each Time You Bring It Back
This Sculpture Represents The Amount Of Plastic Found On Only 2 Miles Of Coastline In The UK. We Can Do Better! Live And Shop Sustainably
I Wouldn’t Care If People Vaped If They Weren’t Generating So Much Plastic Waste
No Words
In some cases wouldn't that trap the ethylene making it go bad faster.
Apple Store Vandalized In Berlin
This Is A Disposable Video Display Used As An Advertisement
Making It Look Like A Bigger Amount Is More Important Than Using Less Plastic
This Just Completes It
What we all need to understand is that we DON'T have to buy what they advertise (looking at you, BP). Nobody holds a gun to our heads and forces us to buy all the junk that's pushed on us. Don't buy anything in an ad. Make them spend the money for nothing. Actually, by putting out more and more ads, they're achieving exactly the opposite of what they want - we're learning to totally ignore what's being shoved into our faces morning, noon, and night. Ask yourself this: when was the last time you actually looked at BP's big pop-up ad before Xing it out? I've deleted two of them by now and I couldn't even tell you what they were. And that's the way it should be. If you get in my face, make it an annoyance to be on your site, then don't blame me if I'm going to ignore those annoyances. If you make the ads more annoying and less avoidable, then don't be surprised if I leave your site entirely.
Nice One Channing Lad 👍
On To The Next Fad
What I can never understand is the need to buy these things that are in fashion...like...why, my Camelbak cost 10$ and does the same thing...and even better I might add.
A Whopping 58% Of Food Is Wasted Or Lost In Canada Every Year. The Pandemic Has Put Extra Strain On An Already Inefficient Food System As We Saw Farmers Forced To Dump Milk And Abandon Crops Due To Plummeting Demand
Nothing Better Than A Car Dependent, Environmentally Unsustainable Lifestyle
Found At The Park And Grabbed Before My Daughter Could. Turns Out It's Disposable. What A Waste Of Material For One Use And Screw People Who Leave These At Parks 🙄
Unfixable Laptops
The Most Unnecessary Product I Have Ever Seen
These may seem dumb, but they are actual tools used in the insulation industry. Pool noodles are commonly used for insulation of piping for solar panels or outdoor hot water tubes. This is not strictly necessary, but for someone who does insulation, at just about 1$, it is a good, lightweight, safer alternative to having a serrated knife loose in the bag.
But The Shareholder Value
Forcing You To Tip
Who Tf Needs All Of This For Just A Cup You Drink Water From?
Very Confused By This Advertisement
I believe this is the infamous Shein scam, where they've prepared a landing page where people have to complete "offers" to "unlock" a Shein gift code. I haven't seen this variation but this level of brainrot as the bait is deliberate; scammers try to attract the sorts of people who are... susceptible.
“But You Absolutely Need Our New And Latest Phone For $1,000!”
Get In Losers, Disposable Tables Just Dropped
This Is It. This Is Peak Consumerism
Neighbors Threw Out Their $5400 Play Set Because It Was “Rotten”. Just Needed Some Paint, Good As New
All This Plastic For 6 Chocolates
Mercedes Locks Faster Acceleration Behind A $1,200 Annual Paywall
That's Too Damn Bad Bloomberg
The world starts to make sense if you replace all uses of "economy" with "rich people yacht money". Example: "How is renewable energy going to impact rich people yacht money?"
Anyone Else Really Annoyed By The Jeep Ducks And Other Copy Cats?
So Proud Of This Joke In My Hinge Profile
Amazon Prime Day Is Such A Scam
From the original post from Routine-Soil7: "I bought this purple shirt a few weeks ago for $14.99 (first pic) and now, for Prime Day a few days ago, Amazon is blatantly misrepresenting the original price as $23.99 (second pic) in order to portray a more significant discount than they are actually offering. Some items on Amazon definitely HAVE been reduced significantly but the vast majority of items I've come across follow this same pattern and it is ridiculous."
Plastic-Free Wipes…in Plastic Packaging
I mean, if they are wet wipes, how else are you gonna pack them to avoid them drying out?
I Always Disliked Spotify But Now I Actually Hate It
For Something Never Worn Again
I Got A Wet Stone And Am Sharpening Everything
Does This Count As "Repaired"? Fabric Shaver At Work
I have that exact model!! But again, how is this "what's wrong with the world"?
I Can't Afford/ Don't Want To Buy New Jeans So Patched It Instead. This Is My 1st Time Patching Clothes So I Hope It Holds
great idea but I think I would have used a different colored patch in that specific area of the pants...
Some Billboards In The Netherlands Have Been Taking Commercial Breaks A Few Seconds Every Minute
This 280000$ Crystal Disney Castle
Nike Tops Their Own High Tops With This Dumb Idea
But You Already Have A Less Cute Version Of All Of This Stuff
I make my own zero-waste kits by using second-hand fabrics that I collect from family. It's not that difficult to make and costs nearly nothing.
Ironic
Handy use for that pool noodle knife above. Someone asked who would buy this and now we know!
I Assumed This Was R/Anticonsumption
This Is So Dystopian, Company Makes A Bench Turn Your Bare Legs Into Ads
this only works if you have bare legs if your wearing trousers it wont work
Boston Throw Away Your Mattress Day Was Today
These are organized to prevent people from throwing them in vacant lots and on the curb. And, at least where I live, they are recycled after that Considering they often last 20+ years I don't see a problem
A Rare W For Apple Consumers
I’ve Seen It All Folks
I’ve Used The Same 50 Cent Razor For Over 1.5 Years And It Still Works Totally Fine
Advertise For Them, For The Low Price Of $5 Each
Using Temu? Stop Bro
This Kind Of Stuff Makes Me Irrationally Angry
Yeah, What's Wrong With The Internet?
Found This On R/Shittytattoos. Humanity Has Fallen 🤦
I Just Went To Milan And It Is A Huge Consumer Market. Ads Are Everywhere, They Even Put A LED Panel On Their Cathedral
That is not a permanent ad on the building, there's renovation going on and the ad is on the cover.
I remember when the local government brought in the recycling bins. First they said it was to reduce the cost of the 'Council tax'. A few years later it was then 'Better for the environment'..so people put the rubbish in the appropriate bin. The council then comes around, collects the bins for recycling and they all go in to the same vehicle. Companies, governments and organisations will say anything to make them seem better than they REALLY are.
I remember when the local government brought in the recycling bins. First they said it was to reduce the cost of the 'Council tax'. A few years later it was then 'Better for the environment'..so people put the rubbish in the appropriate bin. The council then comes around, collects the bins for recycling and they all go in to the same vehicle. Companies, governments and organisations will say anything to make them seem better than they REALLY are.