Our growing population drives consumerism.
Increasingly, we're also seeing little details that Westerners can relate to -- a flash of a smartphone here or an expensive car there -- evidence of a gray market-driven consumerism that has been incubating for years.
In contrast, the Caddy commercial's top dog showcases the worst aspect of blind drive and consumerism: where satisfaction is achieved by looking down and condescending to those who lack what you have instead of looking around and taking joy in the things for which you worked.
Mall culture, which drove U.S. consumerism in the 1980s and 1990s (and continues to aggressively drive it abroad in this decade), is a direct effect of specialty retail.
Modern capitalism has liberated Western women "from being defined by their biology," Bunting says, but at the same time "mothers have ended up relegated to the status of constant abject failure in a culture driven by consumerism and workaholism".
The sustainable management of water cannot emerge from the limitless consumerism driven by limitless wealth in the hands of a few in a world of limited water resources to which all beings have equal rights.Markets have given us a food crisis.
In 2012, she published a history of children's clothing, Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America, which chronicles the decline of gender-neutral apparel for babies and toddlers and the rise of highly gender-specific clothes in the mid 80s, explaining how consumerism helped drive the rapid move toward gendering clothing for young children.
As long as societies are driven by ever-increasing consumerism there can be no hope for ending wars and establishing peace among nations.
And with cars and highways have come all the standard spaces of suburban consumerism - drive-through restaurants and big-box shopping malls, budget chain motels, and even that vanished icon of middle America, the drive-in cinema.
