Sunday, November 1, 2009
As I was reading Time magazine, I came across an advertisement for Liberty Mutual. The advertisement was promoting their automobile insurance. According to the advertisement, “If you total your new car we’ll replace it with the same model.” The materialistic society of America is reflected in this advertisement. It encourages people to buy new cars and puts the idea into their heads that anything is replaceable in American society. It also supports a type of lifestyle in which Americans can have whatever they want when they need it, without inconvenience. The type of mentality encouraged by the advertisement has a negative connection with the environment. The advertisement encourages people to buy things new rather than used. This is one reason why The U.S. has such a large problem with the amount of waste it produces. People buy whatever they want whenever they want to. Then they throw away their older version of the same product.
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This seems to be true...but if I had to opportunity to get a new car, I would probably do what most people do...get it. I probably would not be thinking of the amount of waste we are producing as individuals, but saying this, it seems like it would be the other way around...Wouldn't new cars be better for the environment compared to the clunkers that drive around spitting out waste and fumes?..So I'm not sure if it would have that much of a negative affect on the it.
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