Consumption and Consumerism — Global Issues
Consumerism is the equation of personal happiness with consumption and the purchase of material possessions. The term is often associated with criticisms of consumption starting with Thorstein Veblen or, more recently by a movement called Enoughism.
With Global Warming, everything will change accordingly, and most of the land will be covered up with water. Eventually, the life on earth disappears.
But, after some time, the Earth comes back to its original nature, but we will not be there.
Let us think twice, before going for a product or service in our daily life, a small example is the use of plastic bags. Encourage only those products or services that do not affect the existence of Life on our Earth. The products or services comes from the demand by the consumer only.
To live, we need to Exist!
I request you all to vote for your option in this poll: Is "Consumerism" playing a major role in Global Warming?
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The Psychology Of Denial In The Age Of Consumerism
http://www.countercurrents.org/james031108.htm
Excerpts:
In the past fifty years the rich countries (including us) have used more resources than every human who ever lived before. We are the throw-away culture – and that is only because we are producing so much we can afford to throw things away.
In a recent survey of people who voluntarily cut back their consumption, eighty-six percent said that they were happier as a result. Only nine percent said they were less happy.
In my experience most of us take whatever frightens us or makes us uncomfortable and push it out of sight. This puts it into the unconscious. It does not disappear, but just lies in waiting like a faithful hound until let out.
It is an essential aspect of growing up that we suppress who we really are in order to be accepted and loved by mum and dad.
In our society we use material goods and social roles to cover up the black hole of grief. By surrounding ourselves with pretty and expensive things we tell everyone else that we are really OK. This is, so I learn from my clients, the major cause of going shopping, going on buying sprees and being consumers. We have come to believe that bright new things will fill the empty spaces inside.
John James is a therapist, architect, philosopher and medieval historian.
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