Global Capitalism And Human Consumption

Global capitalism and human consumption affects everything and everyone around the world. Global capitalism affects the way items are produced and consumed. Companies that produce items are mainly doing it for profit. They do not care if the way they are producing affects others if they are always making profit. When companies produced items necessary for people to live, the way the produce the items and the price of the items can be good or bad for the consumers. People around the world are starving, sick, and homeless, but companies that make food, medicine, and homes are doing it for profit. The people being negatively affected by global capitalism hurts their well-being. The people being positively affected by global capitalism boost their …show more content…
Environmental degradation occurs because people are taking to many resources from that land. Once this happens, over time the land will eventually be useless for people and animals. The greed of global capitalism can harm the environment. Companies can be abusing the resources of a piece of land in order to make profit. While that company is abusing the resources of that land it is hurting the environment. Human consumption can also be harmful to the environment. Population growth leads to the need for more resources. When a city or state population exceeds their resources, they will start to take more resources from their land. This will eventually lead to environmental degradation. Over the years global warming has become a worse problem over time. Companies keep producing their products and releasing bad chemicals to the environment. They do not care as long as the company is making a profit. Human consumption in first world countries can be worse for the environment than third world countries. Even though the population can be bigger in third world countries, one person in a first would country produces more waste than one person in a third world country. Since many people in first world countries can afford extra things, the always more material things. This causes them to produce more waste, which causes more environment degradation. While people in third world countries cannot …show more content…
Human consumption patterns show what consumers are producing in different areas of the world. The patterns of human consumption in different areas will show which types of foods those people are mainly consuming. Once companies know which foods people are eating, they will start producing more foods related to the patterns of human consumption. This is where global capitalism comes in and effects the way those foods are produced. If human consumption patterns show that there is a lot of bread being eaten in one part of the world, then a company that produces bread will likely sell expensive bread to that area. A company will likely always produce goods for the most money they can earn. Global capitalism also affects the quality of the food produced. If a company must make profit, then they will lower the standard of how they produce a good. Lowering the standard of the way they produce a good would lower the price of creating that good. This will allow them to sell their goods for even more