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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