In the 1990s, the average person in the U.S. consumed about 30 times as much as the average person in India. We often think of those people in the developing world as poor, but what about the impact of our wealth? As people in India become richer, should their goal be to consume 30 times as much as they do now? Given that the 20% of the world's population in the developed nations generate about 75% of the pollution and waste, more Indians consuming much larger amounts of resources and generating huge amounts of waste doesn't seem like a sustaninable proposition. Here are some other things to think about.
The list goes on and on, but the real question is for you to answer. How do your actions affect the lives of others? Can you make a difference by reducing the impact of your choices?