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Unsustainable consumption – the mother of all environmental issues?

News Published 15 Mar 2012 Last modified 10 Dec 2019

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Photo: © Roger Price

Consumption of products and services impacts the environment in many different ways. For example, the things we buy contribute, directly or indirectly through the product lifecycle, to climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss and resource depletion in Europe and other regions.