 Consumption and our place in nature. Chapter 5 in Sustainable Consumption, Production and Supply Chain Management, 2021, pp 28-38 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: The growth paradigm has become deeply engrained into people’s mindsets. Growth is a natural process, which in nature precedes stability and decay. Degrowth and post-growth economy imaginings are thus all based on the re-imagined relationship between humanity and nature. A number of theorisations exist as to what a degrowth world economy would look like. Detaching ourselves from the growth ideology fundamentally reshapes the very notion of consumption towards a more eco-centric, less materialistic, non-alienating view where the relationships between humans, their needs and the objects that fulfil them are transformed. It has been argued that one of the causes of premature disposal of things lies in the inability of those things to grow with us and this includes our growing inability to adapt those things to our lives as producers take control. Consumers were thus not born wasteful, they were trained to be so by the sales-addicted leaders of a handful of industries seeking market domination. Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Environment; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:19811_5 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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