Shopping can effect our future.

How do you feel about the statement “Shopping is more important than voting.” I feel like this statement could be taken a lot of different ways. Relating to fair trade, I would say that shopping is in fact, more important than voting. In the article, “The Good Consumer” from the Economist, the author states “most consumers will be happy to choose the greener product—provided it does not cost any more, comes from a trusted maker, requires no special effort to buy or use and is at least as good as the alternative.” I think that this could probably go for fair trade as well. People would probably buy more fair trade products as long as it required no special effort to buy or use it. I feel that buying fair trade products goes right along with being green, and being green is rapidly growing in today’s world. I’m not sure if it is just a fad, but it is something that is really becoming prominent nowadays.

Although voting is obviously important because we are deciding who is making major decisions in out government, shopping also plays a very large role in the world. Buying green and fair trade products effects the future of our world and I would say that is pretty important. If we continue to buy products that harm our environment and that harm people in developing countries, our world is not going to get any better. The people involved in government can help with this, however the consumer consists of more people than the government so they can probably make a larger impact on our future.