The Philosophical Connotation And Practical Construction Of Green Consumption

Since the20thcentury, along with the deepening of the globalization process,science and technology changes on each passing day, the world economy developsrapidly, with the greatly promotion of the productivity standards and the greatlyenriching of social material wealth, people’s living standard improved constantly,human society is entering a stage of unprecedented prosperity. however, the negativeeffects of the industrial civilization also gradually revealed. It causes such problems asenvironmental pollution, resource exhaustion, species extinction and ecologicalimbalance, has seriously threaten the survival of mankind. Consumption, as theeternal theme of human development, plays a very important role in the modernhuman survival predicament. It becomes a major cause of global ecological crisis.Under the mode of industrial development, consumption deviated from productionand demand. Global consumerism not only causes the huge waste of resources, butalso the human spiritual crisis.Under this background, human being begin to reconsider the consumptionpattern in the past. Green consumption concept emerge as the times require. It aims toprotect the environment, save resources, and achieve the sustainable development.Green consumption becomes the best choice to dispel the current human survivalpredicament and to reconstruct the wonderful homeland with harmonious relationshipbetween human and nature.This paper starts with the description of green consumption origin, tries tointroduce the main idea of green consumption, analyzes the philosophical foundation,puts forward some suggestions according to the real obstacles in the process of greenconsumption construction which China faced nowadays. This paper has definiteacademic value and actual significance.