We can travel to a future where consumers have become conservers by practising the three Rs of conservation reducing, reusing and recycling. A consumer society is one in which citizens fulfill their ever-increasing demands without full regard for the amount of energy and material resources they use up, and for how the disposal of their waste impacts the environment. The citizens of a conserver society, on the other hand, make a concerted effort to reduce how much energy, water and other resources they consume. They change their habits and demands to reduce the amount of materials that must be produced in the first place. They stop producing things that harm or deplete the environment, and they don't use resources indiscriminately.
Reduction is the most powerful of the three Rs.
Sometimes it's difficult to recognize that society is, after all, simply a collection of individuals, each of whose actions has an impact positive or negative. One person's efforts to reduce the resources he or she consumes can bring about changes for the better. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Teaching Strategies To begin any new unit it is important first to gain the attention of the class and to orient them to the unit that you are about to study. There are several ways to do this.