Hi all...
The roundtable on 'sustainable consumption'.... hmmm, half of the
membership seem to exist to promote growth in consumption....
A very quick squizz at the membership is revealing, includes...
"Brands are an important influence on our lives. They are central to free
markets and democratic societies. They represent free choice" (!!!)
Includes branding for Prozac, BA, BMW and oodles of others.....parent
company Omnicom.... i.e. massive consumption promotion
Chris Pomfret: Unilever (needs no illuminating)
"Kingfisher is Europe’s leading home improvement
retail group and the third largest in the world, with leading market positions
in the UK, France, Poland, Italy, China and Taiwan. Sales for the 52 weeks ended
29 January 2005 were £7.7 billion. Sales for the 26 weeks ended 30 July 2005
were over £4 billion, over 40% of which was generated outside the
UK"
In other words Greenwash...which will no doubt receive some good
branding!!
cheers
marianne
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:34
PM
Subject: Re: SUSTAINABLE
CONSUMPTION?
Michael
This reads like an appeal to rich people to be nice to poor people.
Is that what you meant?
It is imlied and that the Jackson round-table will be making this
argument too.
Is that correct?
If so, it smacks of 're'-distribution.
The challenge is about 'pre'-distribution under limits.
Hi
there,
Excuse me just dropping in on discussions like this: i am
relatively new to the list, and time commitments have not allowed me to read
all postings, but whilst reading some of the recent discussion re. the
nuclear debate and the implication that Lovelock’s position is to defend
‘business as usual’ for our little corner of the world (“keeping the lights
on”), i was considering the feasability of persuading the consumers of the
affluent world to alter their behaviour, and make sacrifices on behalf of
the ‘two-thirds world’ (nevermind the generations to come).
If we
are to have any hope of altering the apparent assumption of ‘sustainable
economic growth’ that seems to underpin all economists and politicians
vision of the future (and if indeed we are to have any hope of influencing
future government policy re. this), surely all eyes must be on Professor Tim
Jackson and the select few who were invited to form the
SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION ROUNDTABLE
?
I understand that they will report back with conclusions next month...
Having presumably been taking evidence from a wide range of experts and
interest groups, i am certainly curious to know how they will ‘square the
circle’...
Regards,
michael herrmann
Senior Lecturer & Researcher
Design (for
Sustainability)
The Leeds School of Architecture, Landscape and
Design
Leeds Metropolitan University
ps. In case you wish to know more, i copied
this description below from the National Consumer Council web
site...
http://www.ncc.org.uk/responsibleconsumption/roundtable_faqs.pdf
