Sustainabilty

For the ASU4, I would like to carrying on some of the ideas from the previous Unit. I looked at Product Service Systems, a way to create a more sustainable method of consumption, based on the idea that when you buy something, when you are finished with it you have to take the product back for recycling. Thus people no longer buy products but buy services, and this would curb consumption habits and hopefully lead to the protection of the environment and natural resources.

I also looked at the problems with this idea. For example, our economic framework supports consumption and the idea of private property is deeply ingrained. Forcing people to give up their things could appear authoritarian.

However, the problems facing our planet are very real and so we need to find some solutions...