Unsustainable consumption patterns

This consumer lifestyle as presently practised is environmentally wasteful and inefficient, requiring large quantities of resources per capita and generating wastes that create further environmental problems when they are disposed of and released into the environment.

1. A person in the USA causes 100 times more damage to the global environment than a person in a poor country.

1. Reinforcement of inappropriate development by privileged classes

1. Subsidized natural resource consumption
2. Resource consumption exacerbated by price distortions
3. Replicating patterns of unsustainable consumption
4. Excessive consumption of goods and services
5. Ecological debt

1. Inadequate town planning

1. Dependence on information technology

1. Involving consumers in biodiversity conservation
2. Decreasing consumption

1. Unsustainable
2. Overconsumption
3. Consumption