Is Eco-consumerism the best possible method of achieving environment sustainability?

Answer 1

This is often argued, but in my opinion no. Consumerism is consumerism, eco or otherwise. It all places higher demands on the environment, on other people particularly those in developing countries. The argument is that economies of scale will drive prices down for eco-goods. It is still the basic business ideology, lower price, produce and sell more. Now smart technologies and sustainable products such as those that enable people to use less power etc help when bought instead of mainstream products. However, it comes down to the same thing - encouraging consumerism which exploits the environment and other people

Answer 2

No way, while it is better than ignorant consumerism, I would guess 'eco consumers' are still over a one earth lifestyle. Furthermore what do they do for a living to earn enough money to be able to afford it?

In the west I'd say education is the best weapon against global warming, In China, my fingers are crossed for a revolution.

Answer 3

We'd be better off with carbon taxes (preferably enough to pay for the damage caused but we're probably going to have enough trouble figuring out how much that is so we might just have to guess at a value that will encourage use of technologies that don't put much CO2 into the atmosphere) along with taxes for any other kind of environmental damage (basically just making the person buying a product pay for the damage caused making it, much like the cost of waste disposal is built into the cost of nuclear power right now) and removing bans on nuclear power and genetic engineering wherever they exist (since we're going to need both technologies to solve our problems).

Answer 4

No, eco-consumerism is still consumerism. We need to REDUCE more, reuse more, grow more or buy local grown food, exchange more, compost more.

Answer 5

No, We need to sort out China's emissions.

Answer 6

no,