CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Destination America, Resource Depletion, Consumerism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 110
• Professor: Gary Mc Carron

Document Summary

Two dominant ways of thinking about green consumerism . Profound ways of moral subtext of marketing / consumerism has been brought to consciousness making a choice. Citizen vs consumers values have been replaced by consumer values. Nature has become a powerful part of our vocabulary of persuasion neil evernden, Green consumerism may be an enlightened consumer strategy that actually helps the planet. Green consumerism may be a collective failure to understand the problem for which it purports to be the solution, a marketing scheme first and foremost. One answer is that our discussions about these issues are framed by the discourse of. Productivism: a wide collection of beliefs, practices, concepts and sediment structures woven together rom at least the time of enlightenment. The total destruction of the productivist expansionistic belief system [ radical critique] A temporary suture (or bandaid) in the gap created by the deficiencies of productivism.