Our consumer culture requires us to consume responsibly
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Apple Valley rests comfortably in the middle of modern suburban America. Chain restaurants, big box stores, and just down the road is America’s largest shopping mall. Truth be told, it’s one of the reasons my wife and I have really come to love Apple Valley since moving here from North Dakota. There’s convenience around every corner, comfort and cleanliness in every coffee shop, and plenty of shopping to keep that revolving door on our checking account spinning.
But, having spent some time outside of the United States has exposed me to the impoverished third world and with it, the visible and invisible relationships between globalization, consumerism, culture, and community. Long story short, I’ve come to realize the goods we consume here in such vast quantity are supplied by many poor people around the world who never see even a hint of the comfort and affluence I enjoy on a daily basis.