Module 9 Consumer education - APCEIU

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Listen to former The poorest 20% of the world's people have been left out of the consumption explosion. Well over a billion people are deprived of basic consumption needs. Of the 4.4 billion people in the South, nearly three-fifths lack basic sanitation. Almost a third have no access to clean water. A quarter do not have adequate housing. A fifth have no access to modern health services. A fifth of children do not attend school to grade 5. About a fifth do not have enough dietary energy and protein. Micronutrient deficiencies are even more widespread. In the South only a privileged minority has motorized transport, telecommunications and electricity. Who Consumes What Rank the level of global spending on a range of goods and services to identify the nature of global consumption patterns. The 1999 Human Development Report describes inequalities in consumption around the world as one of 'the facts of global life'. This report shows that these inequalities in consumption include different levels of access to basic necessities of life such as food and shelter as well as access to <strong>education</strong> and health services - and even in 'intangibles' such as holiday opportunities, rates of Internet use, and participation in the international share market. These inequalities also have a distinct geographical, gender and class bias.
World Bank economist, Herman Daly, explain these justice dimensions of global consumption patterns. Q3: Identify patterns of global expenditure that you think are not sustainable - socially, economically, politically and ecologically, and give your reasons. These unequal global patterns of consumption, in the end, make the move towards sustainable consumption an ethical and a cultural issue: . . . changing wasteful patterns of consumption, particularly in the industrialized countries, is an area where culture will clearly have an instrumental role to play. Changes in lifestyle will need to be accompanied by a new ethical awareness whereby the inhabitants of rich countries discover within their cultures the source of a new and active solidarity which will make it possible to eradicate the widespread poverty which now besets 80% of the world's population as well as the environmental degradation and other problems which are linked to it. Source: UNESCO (1997) Educating for a Sustainable Future: A Transdisciplinary Vision for Concerted Action, paragraph 113.
Page 1 and 2: Introduction As with issues of citi
Page 3 and 4: OECD (1997) Sustainable Consumption
Page 5 and 6: Begin by opening your learning jour
Page 7 and 8: Population - Whose Problem Source:
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Use If the product goes into the dr
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Sustainable consumption requires ev
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Defining Sustainable Consumption -
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Q23: Explain how you could adapt th
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Consumption does not guarantee happ
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The work-and-spend cycle Alienation
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Activity 7 - Reflection Q22: Answer
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