试论可持续消费的伦理观

Argument on Reform of Ethic Concept of Sustainable Consumption

可持续消费作为一种消费观念,是在西方国家工业化经济迅速增长,出现世界性的环境恶化、人口膨胀等一系列危机之后,人们进行探索和反思而产生的。人类通过对古代节俭消费观念的重新审视,对传统工业文明消费观的全面批判,于20世纪90年代初步形成了一种新型消费观———可持续消费观。可持续消费观的确立不仅仅是一场消费方式的变革,在更深层次上是人类思维方式、价值观念和发展观念的根本革命。

Sustainable consumption, as a kind of consumption ideas, is the result of exploration and reflection made by people after a series of crises such as the western countries industries economy increasing rapidly, world deterioration of the environment and population expansion, etc. Through the close examination to the consumption idea of ancient thrifty, the overall criticism to traditional industrial civilization consumption, formed a kind of new - type consumption view preliminary in the 1990s - - sustainable consumption view. Sustainable consumption view is not only a change of consumption pattern, but a fundamental revolution on mode of human thinking, values and developmental view further.