Going Green?

Through out the reading something came up to my mind that Americans as a general do not feel much threaten by environmental changes, and what the media or press keep saying is that we all need to change on our action to keep up with our environment. But seriously, who does actually think about saving the earth and do reduce the usage of water when they are taking shower or cleaning the dishes. Maniates was approaching his point in a way where we should make bigger and more effort to see the changes. For example, “look for easy, cost-effective things to do in our private lives as consumers, since that’s where we have the most power and control” in order to keep the environment safe. But in my opinion, this would not help much, because looking at today’s economy and every person’s amount that they consume is very high compare to what we would put in to our personal action (taking short shower..). Perhaps, if we do try to minimize consumption the economy would not run efficiently and may start to see the downturn on economy, and people would be more focus to run the economy rather than environment if this situation happens. The environment change issues are very difficult to discuss through out the nations and make a decision to put in to action plan, but I think sooner than later we do need to change and act on it.