People today seem to be increasingly buying consumer goods such as the latest domestic appliances, clothes and electronic gadgets. Do you think this is a positive or negative development? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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Nowadays,
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is purchasing more and more products
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as the latest domestic appliances, clothes and electronic gadgets. There are many positive and negative aspects of that trend. In
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essay, I will describe them and give my own opinion on that notion.
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, buying a lot of goods is not sustainable, because
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of them cannot be recycled, and to get rid of them, they end up
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a landfill where decomposition takes
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, especially cheap clothes and plastic things are hard to reuse and after a
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there
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not enough land to store the used products, which
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is harmful
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the planet. What is more, by purchasing more clothes, electronic devices, toiletries, being grateful is lost.
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, people have simply too much and they do not appreciate new things later on.
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, they can afford a lot and they do not have to cost a
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fortune
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,
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society nowadays treats shopping as a way to relax, often compulsively buying not necessarily needed objects.
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, the quality of life has increased significantly, as everything is easily available,
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delivery takes usually a couple of days and many consider online shopping as a more convenient way of purchasing goods. Many years ago, individuals had to wait for months to be able to buy
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example
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a kitchen table or a wardrobe. Now, there is a greater range of products and we have
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to get them any minute. To sum up, people are facing a huge dilemma today- we can buy almost everything, but what will happen to our planet if we keep doing it for the
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decade? It is worth remembering that we are
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to decrease the effects of global warming, waste in the oceans and one of the causes of
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shopping. In my opinion, that development has a negative effect not only on
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society
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but
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on the earth.

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