Degrowth - Background

Background

Anti-consumerism
Ideas and theory Advanced capitalism Alternative culture Autonomous building Buy Nothing Day Commodity fetishism Conspicuous consumption Consumer capitalism Corporate crime Cultural hegemony Culture jamming Degrowth Do it yourself Ethical consumerism Freeganism Libertarian socialism Media bias Microgeneration Progressivism Simple living Social democracy Spectacle
Related social movements Alter-globalization Anti-corporate activism Anti-globalization movement Diggers Environmentalism Libertarian socialism Occupy Wall Street Postmodernism Punk Situationist International Social anarchism
Popular works The Society of the Spectacle (book film) Evasion No Logo The Corporation Affluenza Escape from Affluenza The Theory of the Leisure Class Fight Club (novel film) Steal This Book Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order So, What's Your Price? What Would Jesus Buy? The Atlantic The Cultural Creatives
Organizations and groups Adbusters Freecycle Green party CrimethInc. RTMark Rage Against the Machine Reverend Billy The Yes Men Democracy Now! Occupy Wall Street
People Slavoj Žižek Ralph Nader John Zerzan Noam Chomsky Ron English ABOVE Naomi Klein Thorstein Veblen Hugo Chávez Jimmy Carter Abbie Hoffman Guy Debord Michael Moore José Bové Michel Foucault Jello Biafra Vandana Shiva Bill Hicks Anomie Belle Thom Yorke Kurt Cobain Alex Jones Webster Tarpley David Icke George Noory
Related topics Advertising Capitalism Economic problems Left-wing politics Sweatshops Anti-consumerists Social movements

The movement arose from concerns over the perceived consequences of the productivism and consumerism associated with industrialist societies (whether capitalist or socialist):

The reduced availability of energy sources (see peak oil)
The declining quality of the environment (see global warming, pollution)
The decline in the health of flora and fauna, including humans themselves
The ever-expanding use of resources by first-world countries to satisfy lifestyles that consume more food and energy, and produce greater waste, at the expense of the third world (see neocolonialism)

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