LoginConsumerism vs. climate catastrophe
Does trading standards have a role to play in combatting wasteful habits?
Posted 31 January 2022 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Opinion|Consumer Goods and Services|National
OPINION: Consumer protection should defend fairness and confidence without encouraging a culture of endless consumption. A reflection on COP26, buyer remorse and Alastair Campbell’s awkward Watchdog provocation asks where consumer justice ends and consumerism begins.
Although last year’s COP26 summit led to little consensus on how to approach the future, one thing seems clear: we need to consume less of almost everything. As guardians of the people doing that consuming, what is our role in this? Are we even, maybe without knowing it, enabling exactly the kind of rampant consumerism that we should be trying to make a thing of the past?
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