Question

increasing consumerism has a major impact on environment . relevent with example and case studies ​

Answer 1

Increasing consumerism has a major impact on our environment because it leads to deforestation, increased carbon emissions, and global warming, hence seriously affecting our environment.

Explanation:

• Increased consumerism means increased intake and uses and consumption of natural resources, which severely affects the environment.
• And increased consumerism is inevitably linked with capitalism.
• Let's take a case study of a developed nation like USA, and compare it with a country like Somalia.
• It has been found that an average American consumes 11 times more resources than an average Somalian. This is also linked with the levels of income and the rich and poor disparity.
• For production of large number of food grains and other farm products like poultry and meat, large areas of lands are cleared for converting it into farm lands, thus it triggers deforestation in developing countries of South America, Asia, Africa,etc. as most of the food grains in the developed West comes from developing countries.
• Because of the large scale deforestation large number of species of insects, birds, and smaller invertebrates are lost, which severely affects the ecological cycles.
• Also, for meeting the large demands of meats, large areas of Amazon rainforests were cleared in various parts of Brazil to convert it into farm lands for raising beef.
• As we know that diary animals produce large amounts of methane in the atmosphere, and methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gas. So, it causes the greenhouse effect which leads to global warming and triggers climate change.