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  2. Unsustainable consumption patterns

Unsustainable consumption patterns

Incidence

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.

Claim

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

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Ecological debt
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Value

Unsustainable
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Overconsumption
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Consumption
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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Subject
Content quality
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Language
English
Last update
Feb 3, 2023