Padrão de produção e consumo global no século XXI: reflexões à luz do paradigma da sustentabilidade

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the contemporary pattern of production and consumption and its relationship with the environment through the use of natural resources in the production cycle, from the consumption of raw materials to the final process of production and distribution of goods and services. goods services. Reflecting on the literature and reports of major world organizations such as the United Nations (UN), we see the incompatibility between the current pattern of production and consumption and the ecosystem capacity of the planet to ensure for future societies. the natural resources needed for human survival. From this finding, the paper seeks to reflect on the possibility of thinking a new development model, whose core of the proposals is in line with the ideas of the so-called sustainable development, in spite of the possibility of reaching a production and consumption standard. able to meet present needs without harming future generations. In this context, the idea of development must be linked to the sustainability of the capitalist system, trying to address the problems arising from the Industrial Revolution, especially the unbridled and irresponsible consumption caused by the needs created and sustained by the compulsion to have goods and services, even if they are not. essential, but reveal a model of consumption that is harmful to the environment by impacting the accumulation of solid waste, deforestation and increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.