Consumer Society: Consumerism, Impacts and Sustainable Consumption

Abstract

In the face of the current, real and factual worldwide problem, named by countless adversities, among
which existential, social, health, police, environmental, commercial, financial crises, etc., this is a
time to think about the future of the humanity in particular and, therefore, of the planet where we
live in. Generally, it is directly and indirectly related with the choice and decision to selflessly choose
a sustainable type of life linked to minimalist and conscious consumption that can help us to building
the planet earth in the safeguard of the common home – the planet. Thus, it is necessary to build,
through education, a new ethos (values, principles, attitudes and practical behaviours) capable of
leading a physical-chemical and ecological balance of the planet in view of the complexity of the
relationships that sustain each and every one of beings, consolidating the perspective of society and
the environment as a living, organic, and cohesive whole on the one hand and the awareness of
responsibility for common well-being, coupled with consumption and human progress on the other
hand, however, not only they aim at the propagation of the dignity inherent to the human condition,
but that above all, contradicts the logic of an exacerbated consumerism, therefore violent, subversive
and irresponsible, whose negative and harmful impacts are at all, irresponsible.