ABSTRACT
The notion of sustainable consumption approaches environmental problems through the lens of consumption decisions. Thereby, it aims to highlight the underlying and most fundamental causes of environmental problems and to attribute responsibility where it is due. Specifically, a large share of the environmental degradation arising from production processes in developing countries then has to be linked to consumption decisions made in industrialized countries. At the same time, sustainable consumption pinpoints the question of social justice in the use of the world’s ecological resources and highlights the enormous asymmetries existing there.
