The rise and fall of consumer cultures

* Senior research fellow of the Worldwatch Institute and Project Director of "World Situation 2010 - Cultural Change: From Consumerism to Sustainability". 1 For a discussion on expansion, see "The Current Status of the World in 2010: Changes and Declines in Consumer Culture: Change in Culture: From Consumerism to Sustainable Development". Their economic, social and consumption patterns are necessary to stabilize the climate and to prevent serious damage to human society. Sustainability of Current Consumption Patterns Before explaining the cultural changes required by consumerism it may be worthwhile to study why it is necessary first and foremost. Evidence clearly shows that current consumption patterns are unsustainable - which means they are destroying the long-term abilities that thrive on the planet.

Human history is a periodic record of rising and falling high cultures. These cultures are actually super life forms, that is, they are inherently organic and must undergo a birth - death phase like all living things. Although themselves are independent entities, all the high-level cultures are developing in parallel, and someone's events and stages, among other things, find corresponding events and stages. From the advantage of the 20th century you can gather the meaning of periodic history from the past to predict the decline of the Western.