The letter from a friend of nature

Hi Josh, remember me? It’s your best friend, Steve. Listen, I heard that your grandfather used bear bile for the past 4 years. I’m really sad about it, I think that bear bile is not very good for our health, it does cure some decease, but if we abused it, it doesn’t cured anything, but it make some stomached. That the bad things for us, but it cause a lot more things to bears. I saw some bears on the internet, and they got locked in cages, the cage is just small as a cube, that cube’s area is only 3m, and they just “wait” inside there until they got take their bile from their body. There are some of them are lucky enough to get in to a rescue center. Yes, they have to live in a cage in a rescue center, but they are safe from hunters, or the traps that wait to catch them and make them into medicine. I went to some of the rescue center, and it safe enough for them to live, but they can’t come back to the forest, because:
1. They have been in the cage for to long, they don’t have the skill to live. 2. If they come back, they will got caught by the hunters and be bear bile, or some other medicine. It’s a good thing that some place like the rescue center exist for the bears, or other animal that almost extinct. We can help those animals just by helping the government to build those rescue centers, like give the money to the government for them to build it. The main reason that I wrote this to you is I want to say: using bear bile is not always good. In my opinion, bear bile is only 5% good, why? If we abuse it, it will make us more sick than cure our sickness. And not just that, to create medicine that your grandfather is drink, we have to kill bears, lock them in to cages. The bears will be extinct just because we catch them to make medicine, do you want that to happen? And in the future, our children don’t have the opportunity to see these bears again. After read this letter, I want you to go online and go in you tube, type “bear bile” and you will see what happen to the bears. For example:



get in here and see what happen.

Aswer questions

#1:

How does advertising influence consumption?

If we saw some advertisement, it make us want to buy something, if there area lot of people that want to buy that, and that make the consumption grow bigger, more advertisement make consumption grow much bigger.

#2 Do you think citizens are sufficiently informed about the sustainability of our consumption habits? If not, how can we become more informed about sustainability issues?

Maybe we are not informed about the sustainability of our consumption habits because most of people have low income, so they don’t have enough money to buy the new technologies that save energy. The government has to work on some energy that for everyone can buy it.

#3 Do you think these advertising techniques influence what you and your friends purchase?

There is some product that we don’t know, when people advertise it, we thought they are cool, so we want to buy it.