What is Consumption?

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Introduction

What is Consumption?

Consumption is the spending on food, clothes, CDs, games, holidays, etc - things that get consumed (which means used up). Spending by people on final goods and services for current use. The process of using natural resources, materials, or finished products to satisfy human wants of needs. Consumption affects us all, one way or another.

Main Impacts of Consumption

The amount is certainly high and can have great impacts in all aspects;

  • The manufacturer gains a high profit, with high amounts consumption of goods such as games consoles, e.g. X-Box.
  • With the results, it is visible that large amounts of money must be consumed.
  • Materials are also used up vastly in the process in making some of these goods. For example, a games console in made out plastic and also packaging for some products, this can be followed by the product life cycle (which shows how the environment is affected):

 

        

  • The higher the consumption rate, the jobs that are created, as there is more demand with more products being purchased, which is a major advantage.
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  • There can also be health risks involved; food products such as chocolates and fizzy drinks are heavily consumed and this can lead to many illnesses and diseases.

  • Many factories and companies, whose employees’ make the product e.g. clothes, receive low wages, which contributes to uneven development (see next page).

  • In relation to factories, factories and other places create pollution; the emission of gigantic amounts of greenhouse gases, causing changes in the world's climate and raising of the sea level; the emission of other harmful gases, connected with smog, acid rain, the acidification of ...

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