How We End Consumerism
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at how we end consumerism. Specifically, I unpack how degrowth and ecosocialism can work in tandem to stop consumerism and [...] Read more
Category: Postconsumerism
Post-consumerism is a view or ideology that well-being, as distinct from material prosperity, is the aim of life, and often suggesting that there is a growing willingness to assert such. Post-consumerism can also be viewed as moving beyond the current model of addictive consumerism.
Wikipedia: Post-Consumerism
Maurie Cohen: Unsustainable Consumption, New Values/Lifestyles, and Post-ConsumerismMaurie Cohen: Unsustainable Consumption, New Values/Lifestyles, and Post-Consumerism
Maurie Cohen, Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, discusses how cultural and economic trends are laying the [...] Read more