Abstract
This paper demonstrates that the historical roots of the ecological crisis can be traced back to Enlightenment science and liberalism within which attitudes toward nature and the accumulation of material wealth (consumption) were formed. This developed into the dominant social paradigm still operational today. Within this paradigm, environmentalism is extolled as a solution. It is further demonstrated that this view is not shared by those within ecologism, a construct predicated on non-anthropocentrism and holism. Environmentalism and ecologism are shown to be virtual antitheses, and the difference between them motivates and directs our perceptions of the role of consumption in the ecological crisis.
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Kilbourne, W.E. (2015). Consumption and the Ecological Crisis: Historical Roots. In: Grant, K., Walker, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 1995 World Marketing Congress. Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17311-5_17
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