Post-consumerism

Post-consumerism is a view or ideology that well-being, as distinct from material prosperity, is the aim of life, and often suggesting that there is a growing willingness to assert such.[1] Post-consumerism can also be viewed as moving beyond the current model of addictive consumerism.[2][3] This personal and societal strategy utilizes each individual's core values to identify the "satisfaction of enough for today,"[4] also called "self-defined enoughness."[5] The intent and outcome of this basic strategy to date has "reached people where they are rather than simply where we are."[6] Therefore the "Do I have enough stuff for now?" campaign "is promoting this intriguing question" regardless of the answer.[7]

  1. ^ "Postconsumers".
  2. ^ Post Growth Alliance, Who We Are, Retrieved on 25 April 2016.
  3. ^ Blühdorn, Ingolfur (2017). "Post-capitalism, post-growth, post-consumerism? Eco-political hopes beyond sustainability". Global Discourse. 7 (1): 42–61. doi:10.1080/23269995.2017.1300415.
  4. ^ De Graaf, John et al (2014, Third Edition). ′′Affluenza: How Overconsumption Is Killing Us and How to Fight Back′′, p. 200. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco. ISBN 1609949277.
  5. ^ "Consume Less, Enjoy More". Next Avenue. 13 January 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  6. ^ Holst, Carol (2007). ′′Get Satisfied: How Twenty People Like You Found the Satisfaction of Enough′′, p. xviii. Easton Studio Press, Connecticut. ISBN 0974380687.
  7. ^ "Season of Creation Daily Day 4: How much do we need?". National Catholic Reporter. 4 September 2019.