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“Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.”

Firsts Problem Mother Capitalism First Time Environmental Consumption Consumerism Controversial Overconsumption Environmental Problems

Author:Kalle Lasn

“The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the suggestion I will make to you is that the idea of constant accumulation, which is what America is about, what consumerism, NAFTA are about, means that you always take more than you need and you don't leave the rest. So I suggest that it is possible from an indigenous world view that capitalism is inherently out of order with natural law.”

“Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.”

World Different Known Modern Capitalism Consumerism Overconsumption

Book:Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

Source: Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

“The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.”

Source: Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics

“What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.”

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Author:Rodney Clapp

“It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.”

“[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.”

Want Seems Answers Economic Demand Capitalism Consumerism Overconsumption Dissatisfied

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.”

Humans Used Culture Human Beings Capitalism Oppression Consumers Something New Goods Exploitation Overconsumption Discarded Disposable

Author:Pope Francis