268) Maurie Cohen: Looking past individualism to seeing consumerism through a systemic lens
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
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🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Maurie Cohen is a Professor of Sustainability Studies at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author of the book, The Future of Consumer Society: Prospects for Sustainability in the New Economy. He's also the Editor of the journal, Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, and co-founder of the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production.
In this podcast episode, Maurie sheds light on what we can learn from viewing conscious consumerism, not through an individualistic lens, but a more collective one; the limitations and cautions against seeing localization as our path forward; and more.
Featured music: Fight for You by Raye Zaragoza
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| 1:28.1 | There are problems with the way in which green consumerism has come to be operationalized, |
| 1:33.7 | especially in the United States, as an overly individualized approach. |
| 1:39.0 | So there's a tendency for us to retreat from the politics of consumption and to think that if we |
| 1:46.6 | eat a little bit differently drive our cars a little bit less maybe maybe acquire an |
| 1:51.8 | an electric vehicle that through our individual behavior changes that that will roll up together |
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