Day 1: Consumption

We began the No Impact for a week experiment today with the easiest of the steps, Consumption. Simply put this means that we are not allowed to purchase new consumer goods this week which as as a college student isn't very hard to do for such a short amount of time. This step of the No Impact process would be much more difficult if done for an entire year, but not for a week. The idea of stopping consumption is that it will help the environment by decreasing waste output while keeping money in your wallet. This sounds like a good idea on a personal level, but this could be bad if too many people decided to cut their consumption of new goods. The American economy would perish without consumers and if we were to experience another economic crisis environmental issue would be pushed into the background. Maybe I'm being dramatic here but hey, at least it'll save me money.