This document summarizes how consumerism works and its environmental impacts. It describes the consumerism system as having 5 linear stages: extraction of resources from the planet, production in factories that often use toxic components and exploit workers, distribution, consumption which is prioritized by companies, and disposal mainly through incineration and landfills. It concludes that as responsible people, we must change our thinking away from materialism and help preserve the planet for future generations.

1. Consumerism and
environmental impact
Introduction
¿How consumerism works?
Extraction
Distribution
Production
Consumption
Disposal
Consequences
Conclusion

2. Introduction
• This topic seems to me to be interesting because we all
in our environment are buyers for nature, we live in a
very materialistic world that only devotes himself to think
in the obtaining of things and who has better; but nobody
stops thinking about on how the products that we
consume are made and the effects that produce on the
environment.
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3. ¿How consumerism works?
• The consumerism divides in 5 parts and works like a
linear system. But in spite of the fact that this is what is
known really it is not quite since many spaces are absent
without filling, this is actually a system in crisis because it
is a linear system that begins with extraction and ends in
rejecting everything that is produced.
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4. Extraction
Is to take out the resources from the planet for the elaboration of products or
personal benefits.
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5. Production
Later, the resources are taken to
factories to make the final product
which are make with toxic
components
People that work there are like
slaves because they’re not being
paid and they work in deplourable
conditions, even childs work in
those conditions.
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6. Distribution
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7. Consumption
• This one is the sector that makes all this system have
sense for the businessmen, so it is the priority for the
companies; Everything is done in order that we buy,
demonstrating that the identity of everyone is being
consumers.
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8. Disposal
• It is the act of rejecting everything what is considered to
be a garbage.
Incineration Throw garbage
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9. Consequences
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10. Conclusion
We as responsible people have to change our way of thinking that sutffs is the
only matter and try to help to keep the planet alive for the future generations
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