Consumerism can be defined by the highly demand that is emerging because of more than necessarily consumption. This concept was based on the times after World War II and it was all planned by the government and corporations to develop the economy (Leonard, 2007). To encourage people to consume more, it was said that; if we consume, our ego satisfaction will increase and it will cause us to be happier. Even some of the statesmen argued that the major bourn of people is to create more consumer goods at that time. After that, consumerism began to penetrate in our lives but is it really a bad thing? In my opinion; yes, it is really a bad thing. Although there are also some positive effects of consumerism, the negative effects of consumerism are more dominant such as the impacts on health, natural resources and economy.
Firstly, consumerism has negative sides and minor positive sides in sense of human health. The negative effect of consumerism is that it is influencing the human health badly by causing toxic (Leonard, 2007). We use energy for production by mixing toxic chemicals in with the natural resources to make toxic contaminated products and sadly none of them are being tested for synergistic health impacts. Since we are putting toxics into our industrial production systems, we are still going to get toxics in the stuff which we use. Because of many factory workers are reproductive aged women, babies are getting toxics from their mothers by breastfeeding. That is why nowadays we do not actually pay for the stuff that we purchase, because mostly the amount of the price does not cover the stuff's expenses, instead the people who work in the factories pay for it with the loss of their clean air and with increasingly asthma and cancer rates. On the other hand, the positive effect of consumerism is the development of the pharmaceutical sector during the past ten years under favor of consumerism.
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