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This 4 page paper discusses the impact of consumerism on the environment, and argues that we have failed in our duty to protect the earth. It further argues that change is beginning but it is slow, and often blocked by those who are short-sighted and focused solely on profit. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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therefore seem only prudent that we take care of it. However, environmental stewardship seems to conflict directly with our consumer-oriented society in which, especially in the United States, the unspoken
command is to consume more and more of everything, from products to energy. This paper examines the relationship between consumerism and the environment, and some of the effects the "green"
movement has had on consumers around the world. Discussion The mantra "consumerism is necessary" seems to have become an id?e fixe throughout the world because it has been endlessly repeated
that the "United States consumer is the engine of the global economy. If the Americans stop buying, that engine will stall" (Simms, 2008, p. 50). However, if everyone shopped like
Americans do, we would need four additional planets for our "stuff" and if Americans keep on shopping as they do now, Simms argues, "we face the much worse scenario of
all the planets human life-support systems stalling (Simms, 2008, p. 50). Rampant spending is an "environmentally suicidal model" to follow in our quest for fulfillment is "both a non-starter and
a contradiction in terms" (Simms, 2008, p. 50). How then are some six billion people supposed to have a good life and meet their needs and desires without wrecking the
environment? (Simms, 2008). The answer lies in the fact that there seems to be no correlation between "life satisfaction and consumption levels" (Simms, 2008, p. 50). In the UK,
for instance, the economy has grown steadily over the past few decades, but "well-being has flatlined" (Simms, 2008, p. 50). Political theorists and philosophers from Adam Smith to Karl Marx
knew that "purely material ambition" bred nothing but dissatisfaction (Simms, 2008). And Simms argues that today, we have new ways of measuring the "efficiency with which scarce natural resources are
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