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environmental social sciences and sustainable consumption  

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  • Although consumption is recognized as bringing pleasure, comfort, and convenience, environmental side effects can cast dark shadows over consumption, turning it into an overall negative phenomenon. Confronting consumption for many social analysts (e.g., Princen, Maniates, and Conca 2002) means developing a critical analysis of the “treadmill of consumption” as implied in the capitalist foundation of our modern production-consumption organization. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Environmental Social Sciences and Sustainable Consumption]

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