Survey conducted for final

I decided to conduct a survey on the Rutgers campus in order to help me provide evidence for the question that I am answering. I am answering question 2 and I conducted a survey in front of Brower. I thought up a short question that would take minimal time to answer to attract participants. The question was made to show the dependence on disposable products in our society. The question was "List 1 disposable product that you use every day and rely heavily on?” I made the question short and the answer so it would literally take up about 10 seconds of their time and prove my point. I made sure I asked an even number of girls to guys, it ended up being 15 men and 15 women. The answers were very close to what I thought they would be. Every single woman admitted that they relied heavily on disposable razors, which was the most common answer for most women. For men a lot of them stated that they used disposable silverware, plates, bowls, etc. in their apartments in order to cut down on washing dishes and such. Some of them also states that they went through a new role of paper towels almost every other day. Some men also said that they used disposable razors as well. The reason that I conducted this survey was to prove how heavily our culture is on disposable products. Even though this is only a minor aspect of what the book talks about it still proves a good point seeing how heavily people rely on disposable products. I will discuss the findings to my survey much more in depth in my paper I just wanted to show how important products like this are to our society.           

This just shows you how hard it will be for our society to “go green”. Most people don’t really pay much attention to going green and only go green when it is convenient for them and would never go out of their way to help the movement. It is almost funny to me when I see water companies such as Poland spring trying to make their water bottles more “green” by using less plastic. Most people buying these products don’t even know that they are contributing to the movement of going green and could really care less. I am not against the movement I just think it will not succeed seeing how our society is run by technology and we are constantly replacing technology that we own with new technology. The motives in our society are far to money based for people to go green. If our country is going to change then it has to be a forced change that makes people go green instead of just hoping people will jump on the band wagon. I know from personal experiences that people are far too caught up in making money and having the latest technology to care about the idea of going green. People are actually more concerned of self promotion of themselves online than in real life which is another reason why I think going green will not succeed.