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Summary Of Forget Shorter Showers By Derrick Jensen

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Forget Shorter Showers and Waste Not, Want Not are two publications that are the direct opposite of each other. Forget Shorter Showers is an essay that was written by Derrick Jensen and publicized on July 8, 2009 in Orion Magazine. It is an article that counters the action of environmental conservation strategies. On the other hand, Waste Not, Want Not is a publication written seven years earlier in 1992 by Bill McKibben. Waste Not, Want Not comes up strongly to explain the ways that would help to curb the problem of having insufficient resources in our society. This essay will help the reader delineate between the the similarities and the differences of the two written articles.
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In contrast to this, in Forget the Short Showers, Jensen eludes that it is not the taking short showers that will help increase the water recharge but a move for water conservation for those who use the most amounts of water. He does not put the blame on the households but on the large corporations and entities that use vast amounts of resources with no regard for conservation. Jensen argues this issue at the macro level while McKibben presents it as more of a micro level issue and fix. McKibben suggests that people should reconsider their methods of water utilization at the household level. While on the contrary, Jensen states that the over-users of said resources in the United States are much more at fault for shortages and should therefore face stricter conservation controls. McKibben believes and recommends that conservation is the only way towards attaining water and resource sustainability and Jensen thinks that there is unfairness in resource distribution, with the poor or powerless households acting as the scapegoat for all of the contributors to resource

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