People spend money every day. Gen Z spends an average of $92.13 daily on education, groceries, eating out, cellphone service, etc. Do we need to spend all this money a day? Well, not really. Most people spend around 120 dollars on clothes per month, 438 dollars on food, and 150 dollars on gas, which is unnecessary. The reason people spend so much on clothes and other unnecessary things is because of the Diderot Effect. Once a person buys one thing, they want to keep buying more. Since we live in a capitalist society, buying unnecessary things is so normalized and even advertised. The society we live in today is run on the Diderot Effect and products are marketed to make us happy, which makes us spend more on useless things. People also spend so much money on food at grocery stores and on gas. Buying prepackaged food from the grocery store is actually more expensive than buying fresh food by the pound and making it yourself. Also, it is shown that electric cars are thousands of dollars cheaper than owning a gas-run car. Since we spend so much on a daily average, the CO₂ we release from the gas we use to drive our cars down to the food we buy and eat contributes to the CO2 rising in our atmosphere. Humans are carbon sources and since the industrial revolution, we've depended on burning fossil fuels to make our clothes and transportation. The ways we can lower the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere are not as complicated as people think. The easiest thing we can do to lower our carbon footprint is to buy fewer clothes or thrift more of our clothes. Investing in good quality clothes that will last a year or two, or thrifting all of your clothes means less fossil fuels are burned to make new, cheap, and bad quality clothes. Another thing we can do is grow and buy fresh and locally grown/made food. It's cheaper and better for the environment because no plastic is being made to package the food, also, if you grow your own food it's so satisfying being able to see your plants grow and thrive! One last simple thing we can do to reduce our carbon footprint is to take public transportation and/or upgrade to electric cars. Taking public transportation reduces the CO2 being released because there are multiple people riding the same vehicle. Also, many buses are now using green energy which is even better for the environment. If you need to drive around a lot then it could be a good investment to upgrade your car to an electric car. This saves our daily gas money and helps the environment as well. Implementing these simple things into our daily lives can help reduce our daily spending and help lower our CO2 emissions.

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