this is an interesting article which is from 2011 i believe and ties nicely to the WWF’s Living Planet Report 2014.Here is a quote from the article.
he said. “We are consuming what is rightfully theirs by sacrificing long-term progress on the altar of immediate satisfaction. That is hardly responsible behaviour.
Sounds a bit like this,
'For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,'
When I looked up consumerism on Wikipedia it said this
Consumerism is a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-greater amounts.
and I thought this quote was interesting.
In 1955, economist Victor Lebow stated:
| “ | "Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction and our ego satisfaction in consumption. We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever-increasing rate".[32] |
interesting in the sense of what the report shows has happened a quote from the WWF’s Living Planet Report 2014.
'One key point that jumps out and captures the overall
picture is that the Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures more
than 10,000 representative populations of mammals, birds, reptiles,
amphibians and fish, has declined by 52 per cent since 1970. Put
another way, in less than two human generations, population sizes
of vertebrate species have dropped by half.'
Maybe a vow of poverty would be a good idea