The Theory Of Sustainable Consumption

Consumption as the necessities of human survival and development, but alsobring enormous resources consumption. Excessive, immoderate, conspicuousconsumption is a kind of waste, or consumer alienation, it brought great pressure onthe earth’s resources, thus bring the depletion of resources, environmental pollution,ecological imbalance, interpersonal relationship and from tensions, the social stratumdifferentiation and so many serious consequences of consumption, will also bring theoffspring even contemporary human normal consumption of non sustainable.Therefore,Chinese consumption need to solve the relationship betweenconsumption and economic and social development from the beginning, overcomeconsumption economic depression and the chaos of consumption.Production and consumption are the two main activities of human existence, thenature and scale properties level and scale of production determines consumption andproduction, in order to meet consumer demand, then the consumer will promote theproduction, restricting the level and scale of production.Sustainable consumption refers to "provide to meet basic needs and improve thequality of life service and related products, while minimizing the use of resources andwaste and toxic substances in the life cycle of these services or products within andpollutants, and don’t do harm to future generations. The people in the process ofdevelopment, according to the non sustainable development behavior to make thechange, that is to combine the consumption with sustainable organic, to achievesustainable consumption. Specifically, it is to abandon the conspicuous consumption,luxury consumption, advance consumption, excessive consumption, unsustainableconsumption idea and behavior, and to practice green consumption, low carbonconsumption, harmonious consumption, conspicuous consumption, and ecologicalcivilization that can reflects the idea of sustainability and behavior.Take china as an example, On one hand we must change the traditional mode ofdevelopment, spare no effort to promote economic restructuring and transformation,on the other hand, we should expand domestic demand and stimulate consumption.meanwhile we also should face the serve reality which caused by consumption, andpromote more rational consumption structure, establish the concept of sustainableconsumption, form sustainable consumption of china characteristics. This so-called sustainable consumption of Chinese characteristic should proceedfrom its national conditions. According to the present situation of China economicand social development to carry out sustainable consumption of the theory andpractice of protocol specification. From the theoretical level, we need to define theconnotation of sustainable consumption, to establish the principle of sustainableconsumption and evaluation mechanisms, to build the foundation of sustainableconsumption, and to explore the path to sustainable consumption. From a practicalperspective, we need to establish the concept of sustainable consumption, to developthe habit of sustainable consumption, to practice sustainable consumption lifestyle,and to establish a system to protect the sustainability of consumption...