Overconsumption (economics)
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Overconsumption is a situation where resource use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem. A prolonged pattern of overconsumption leads to environmental degradation and the eventual loss of resource bases.
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See also
- Artificial demand
- Collaborative consumption
- Conspicuous consumption
- Consumption (economics)
- Degrowth
- Environmental studies
- Externality
- Mottainai
- Overexploitation
- Overshoot (population)
- Peak copper
- Peak oil
- Preorder economy
- Santosha (renunciation of the need to acquire)
- Steady-state economy
- Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers (film)
- World Scientists' Warning to Humanity
- Throw-away society
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