Environmentalism Is a Lost Cause in Our Consumerist World. Discuss

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Today, we live in an age of indulgence with consumerism being at the heart of growing industries. As countries in the world today get more affluent due to the progress of science, more and more people are able, and are willing to spend on material goods. To meet this surge of demand for consumerist items, companies and firms go into mass production and search for methods that lower their cost of production. More often than not, this comes at the expense of our environment in terms of pollution and the loss of biodiversity. However, as time progresses, consumer awareness have increased. People no longer consume blindly, but are more conscious of how environmentally friendly the products they consume are. Due to the increasing concern of the environment today, there have been considerable efforts by companies to protect the environment to get more customers. Some even build their brand image on environmental friendliness. In my opinion, consumerism has indeed caused us to neglect the environment one time or another, but with growing concerns on going green, firms and governments are giving more attention to the problem. With growing affluence, more people in the world today demand for more goods and services because they are more willing and able to find satisfaction in material goods. In a bid to meet this growing demand and to maximize profits, companies and firms seek the cheapest methods of production and waste disposal often at the cost of our environment. Firms start to build more factories, which generate tons of waste, which are disposed off into the air or into rivers, polluting our environment. Companies such as Sony and Pecan are on the “black list” of being on most “environmentally unfriendly” companies because they produce up to 10 million tons of carbon dioxide each per year. As we can see, in meeting the high demands for material goods, we have

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