Comments on: The Effects of Consumerism http://www.paggu.com/business/world-economy/the-effects-of-consumerism/ Entrepreneurship, Startups, Wordpress, Search Engine Optimization Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:51:20 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Blake http://www.paggu.com/business/world-economy/the-effects-of-consumerism/comment-page-1/#comment-10232 Blake Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:17 +0000 http://www.paggu.com/?p=161#comment-10232 I think a radical shift in what we consider progress would change how we view our economic well-being. Our society is so focused on economic growth, but not so much on actual development. An example: destroying wildlife habits to open a new coal mine and pollute the atmosphere with even more CO2 certainly grows our economy, but is this "progress"? Instead, we could work to become more energy efficient, eliminating the need for a new coal mine. The economy wouldn't grow per say, but I would submit that that is more progress than the former scenario. This was a really good list, btw. I recently wrote about the negative effects of consumerism, but looked over some of the points you mentioned. I think a radical shift in what we consider progress would change how we view our economic well-being. Our society is so focused on economic growth, but not so much on actual development.

An example: destroying wildlife habits to open a new coal mine and pollute the atmosphere with even more CO2 certainly grows our economy, but is this “progress”? Instead, we could work to become more energy efficient, eliminating the need for a new coal mine. The economy wouldn’t grow per say, but I would submit that that is more progress than the former scenario.

This was a really good list, btw. I recently wrote about the negative effects of consumerism, but looked over some of the points you mentioned.

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