BOARD - CONSUMERISM

21/03/2011
2H

This board was dedicated to cosumerism.
Consumerism is a global issue, which every day brings more and more problemswith which Earth has to face.
Definition of consumerism:

Consumerism is a social and economic order that is based on the systematic creation and fostering of a desire to purchase goods and services in ever greater amounts. The term is often associated with criticisms of consumption starting with Thorstein Veblen or, more recently by Enoughism. Veblen's subject of examination, the newly emergent middle class arising at the turn of the twentieth century, comes to full fruition by the end of the twentieth century through the process of globalization