The document discusses the concept of materialism and its causes and effects. It defines materialism as the belief that material possessions and physical comforts are more important than spiritual values. It says that materialism is caused by factors like fast development leading to more choices and needs, greediness and confusion between needs and wants. Materialism leads to negative consequences like immorality, conflicts, environmental damage and people losing their identities and becoming slaves to pursuing wealth. Potential solutions discussed include focusing on art, community and spiritual values through education.

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13. Materi alism causes immorality , which further leads to war , conflicts, and evils. Millions of people have been being killed in the past and recent wars. Many nations fell into poverty and mortality just because of others’ bottomless material desire . Uncountable amount of people become cruel and evil for the sake of money and power the bad effects of materialism

14. Tra ditional moral qualities such as self-control, generosity and good manners are being forgotten, leaving the place for materialism . In addition, materialism has negatively affected our global environment Because of our quest for materialism, the global society ignores problems such as global warming . Humans are being self destructive in a long term. We live in a world s urro unded by and composed of matter. the bad effects of materialism

18. . In conclusion , with many differ ent reasons, materialism occupies human being’s lives . Its process is taking place everywhere . No need to say, materialism results in many consequences and off - spring which are not easy for us to handle . However, there are solutions . Individually, we should have a more serious look towards the problem to evaluate where we are with respect to the causes and solutions of materialism . Material is necessary but not everything . We therefore should balance our lives in both spiritual and material values so that we will not become the slave to materi alism