Mishika

Who Did You Interview?

• Mishika

Demographics That Might Provide Helpful Context for Their Responses

• Undergraduate at Stanford
• Ex-Vegan
• Woman of Color

Key Findings from the Interview

• Sustainability
• not only environmental but also social
• composts/electric car/public transport
• Believes people need to be more empathetic and accountable for their actions and society as a whole
• Economic decisions
• mostly a background thought — not a prime consideration
• Challenges
• disbelieving in impact/responsibility
• Have bigger things to worry about — thinking about their own lives
• Sustainable products will only take off when they are better for the selfish people regardless of sustainability
• Laziness — not wanting to take action
• Sustainable product
• best quality/price
• every part of supply chain needs to be sustainable
• Governments need to enforce on corporations rather than people
• Landfills
• people take space for granted — run out of room to put space bc of overconsumption
• solution — launch trash into space if it doesn’t cause problems
• tax corporations to prevent overconsumption