Today's consumption is undermining
the
environmental resource
base.
It is
exacerbating
inequalities. And the dynamics of
the
consumption-poverty-inequality-
environment
nexus are accelerating. If the
trends continue without change - not
redistributing from
high-income to low-income
consumers, not shifting from polluting to
cleaner
goods and
production technologies, not
promoting goods that empower poor
producers,
not
shifting priority from
consumption
for conspicuous display to
meeting
basic needs -
today's problems of
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