Have You Consumed with Care? A #BeliYangBaik Campaign

Have you consumed with care? Are you aware about where your body wash and oil are generated from? Or the paper sheet you scramble, do you know how many trees are cut down just to know that the paper belongs to the bin eventually? These questions may not seem to matter for us now, but who knows whether our earth still have tomorrow?

Consume with Care is a campaign by World Widelife Fund that encourages consumers to be environmental friendly about each purchase and each footprint that consumers leave every day. Footprints that is taken from the natural resources that being processed and leave a non-environmental residue such as gasoline, tissues, papers, water, harmful gasses such as hair dryer, refrigerator, air conditioner and many more. We cannot change things that we have wasted for as long as live, but we certainly can start a change from today. Now we are living in a metropolitan city under the sparks of skyscrapers may not directly feel the haze from Sumatera, Kalimantan and Papua. Not to mention about the largest number of seafood consumption is from Indonesia. An instant and continuous increasing number of exploited marine resources are threatening not only to our nation but as well it worries the world. If this careless and wasteful consumption keeps on happening, there will be nothing else left for us to consume in any near future.

Four crucial steps that consumers need to follow in order to consume with care are the following. Firstly we, as the consumers, need to actively find out about products that we use daily. It is a surprise to know that many of our daily needs product contain palm oil which results in more deforestation done by big companies. This is due to the fact that the higher the demand of the product that contain palm oil, the higher is the chance of deforestation which may need another millennium for the trees to grow back. Secondly, we have to be aware of which brand is environmental friendly. There are at least four logos that represent a responsible conduct of running a business which are ASC and MSC for marine products, FSC for forest related issues, RSPO for representing an eco-friendly palm oil product. Thirdly, we as consumers have to acknowledge our rights to kindly request producers or retailers that we purchase our products from to use such labels or at least to not contribute in harming the environment any worse. Last but not least, we are encouraged to show our support by signing the petition on www.change.org titled as #BeliYangBaik to represent ourselves as the consumer who consume with care. This petition may as well spread widely and awaken the nation, especially our fellow youngster, to actively join the campaign and be part of this humble mission.

Consume with Care is not merely a campaign that aims to increase public awareness about the footprints we leave, but it is a pledge, a mission, a commitment of a union of consumers who decide to take action and make a difference today. To stand against the odds may not be easy in the beginning, but we should never underestimate the power of one. One can take action and be committed to change their consuming habit today and one can influence the rest to may as well do the same. The power of one is astounding when every single one can stand together and protect the world as one. Let each of us remind one another by asking have you consumed with care today?