Do you contribute to consumption?
Mindless consumption is one of the main drivers of the climate crisis. Why is this so and why does our society seem to be unable to consume less? Where does this life-style come from and what does it do to us as individuals or to nature? These questions should resonate especially with those who make and create.
Karl Marx was amongst the first to critically write about this phenomena in the modern context and Political theorist Hannah Arendt has taken Marx’s thoughts extensively further and shaped our understanding of consumption and its crucial consequences.
For those of you who like short, nicely illustrated videos we recommend watching “The Story of Stuff” a Canadian Project aiming to make complex social phenomena and problems easy to understand. (In the link section you can also find a topic related podcast in German.)