Consumismo verde: o paradoxo entre o capital e a crise ambiental, com a venda de soluções em potes

Abstract

Green consumerism - the act of unavoidable purchase of "green" products - is the name given here to the socioeconomic phenomenon of the 21st century, which manifests a growing offer and demand for eco-friendly products. The present study aims to analyze the phenomenon of green consumerism in the face of the capitalist economic system, as well as the Consumer Society's perception of it, by observing the systematic deviation and the fake green, as well as investigating the increase in the consumption of eco-friendly or green-friendly products, verifying them as possible pot solutions. From this perspective, the perception of consumers about green marketing and greenwashing is of paramount importance, as well as the investigation of the feeling of guilt and anxiety in technologically active young people in the face of the current environmental crisis. The intent of this paper is to produce a strategic basic research in the face of the Consumer Society phenomenon, referred to as green consumerism. Based on descriptive and exploratory research, with a quali-quantitative approach, hypothetical-deductive method, carrying the procedures elaborated from bibliographic, documental and survey study. The results obtained through the manifestation of capitalist systematic deviation clearly show the correlation and perpetuation of deviation through fake green or false support for the environmental cause. Leading to increased production and consumption of eco-friendly products, seen symbolically due to educational failure, through green marketing strategies, as positive pot solutions. Giving subsidy to greenwashing and its false "green" advertisements, based on the economy of deception, as well as demonstrating the direct proportionality between increased consumption of products, including green-friendly ones, with increased environmental devastation, demonstrating the gullible consumer outlook. This highlights the socio-environmental suffering of the Consumer Society. Where population and environment are exploited, reaching catastrophic numbers in the loss of biodiversity, as well as the mental sickness of young people, who feel guilty, helpless and anxious in the face of ecocides, judging themselves betrayed by governments.