This is SO, SO important. Even if I can't understand the content of this video due to a language barrier, the fact that a young woman in a Muslim nation is speaking out about the problem of overconsumption so passionately is something the world needs to notice. I did a little research and found her paper (in English) on Prezi, and her ideas are brilliant and on-point with leading researchers in the field of population growth and the factors that drive it.
Wake up, citizens of our fragile, beautiful, desperate world. People, especially those who do not live in affluent Western nations, are calling for positive and necessary change. They are asking for us to consider the long-term impact of our fleeting actions before we throw away perfectly good food or a working computer instead of donating it, before five friends take 4 separate cars to the same destination when they live within 2 miles of one another, before we decide that not turning off the lights isn't going to hurt anyone.
To the young lady who gave this speech--Thank you SO much. You are a light in the darkness, a hope for steering the world away from the bleak course it is headed on if habits do not change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAFehIzgK9k
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