If you ever get a chance to watch Crude Impact (crudeimpact.com) or take sustainability/Think Tank classes in your school/university/college. Or you can google an ecological footprint calculator to see how much you consume just by owning stuff, transportation, food, etc. and ways to reduce it. I'm not just talking about consumption in terms of eating convenient food or using electricity, I'm also referring to the amount of energy (creation/process, fuel, labor, resources, usage, etc.) it takes (example) for that one chicken in your dinner to have gotten to the supermarket to your plate (including how the energy it took to make the appliance,