Relationship between Consumer Society/Environmental Degradation and Production Decentralization by Lucas Novo Malvão

Consumer Society

lucasmalvao — 2024-04-11 17:57:17 UTC

A society in which buy new products that they don't need. But this society has high disposal rates because they buy a product and one month later they throw in the trash.

Enviromental degradation

lucasmalvao — 2024-04-11 22:27:23 UTC

As people are buying many products but discard in less than 6 months, the production of this product is getting bigger, so the extraction of natural resources to make this product is getting bigger. The natural resources are not infinite, so this large amount of extraction is making an Environmental Degradation.

Production decentralization

lucasmalvao — 2024-04-15 13:07:14 UTC

Production decentralization is a production model where production happens in multiple locations, meaning that the manufacturing is distributed between separate factories. The decentralization in clothe's industries occurs most of the time on Desenvolved Countries (USA, UK, France, Italy, etc..) to Asia because in most of the countries the taxes are lower.

Examples Of Consumer Society

lucasmalvao — 2024-04-15 13:13:35 UTC

1- Videos of Unboxing clothes

2- When you buy a product only to demonstrate the you have money

3- When a company makes a product only to break for people buy another.

Examples of Envirommental degradation

lucasmalvao — 2024-04-15 13:26:06 UTC

1- Agriculture, cattle raising on Mata Atlantica made it lose more than a half of it's territory

2- Production of cotton is devastating Amazonia

Examples Of Production Decentralization

lucasmalvao — 2024-04-15 13:32:07 UTC

1- Famous companies like Nike and Adidas that have their headquarters on USA but their production is mostly on Asia

2- Famous clothing brands that do the same thing

3- Sweatshops in Asia

Relation between Consumer Society, Enviromental Degradation and Production Decentralization

lucasmalvao — 2024-04-15 13:45:30 UTC

Consumer society increases production of products because people are buying a lot of products in a short time, but companies make their products in a place that is cheaper for it, for example, Bangladesh. In this place the volume of production is very big so the environment gets degradated, for example, the product of wood is very big in Amazonia so the forest territory is getting smaller and the photosynthesis gets weaker so the production of Co2 doesn't get changed into oxygen making living things die.

Sources

lucasmalvao — 2024-04-15 13:52:41 UTC

1- https://katanamrp.com/blog/centralized-vs-decentralized-manufacturing/#:~:text=Decentralized%20manufacturing%20is%20a%20production,and%20providing%20local%20job%20opportunities.

2- Ines's slides

3- https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/state-of-the-planet/number-of-consumers

4- https://www.historycrunch.com/consumerism-positives.html#/

5- https://plantwithpurpose.org/causes-effects-and-solutions-to-environmental-degradation/#:~:text=Environmental%20degradation%20is%20a%20major%20contributor%20to%20climate%20change.,disruption%20of%20natural%20carbon%20sinks.

6- https://www.longdom.org/open-access/causes-and-factors-of-environmental-degradation-92871.html

7-https://katanamrp.com/blog/centralized-vs-decentralized-manufacturing/#:~:text=Reduced%20economies%20of%20scale%20%E2%80%94%20Decentralized,scale%20as%20centralized%20manufacturing%20does.

8-https://www.logweb.com.br/descentralizar-a-logistica-e-uma-forma-de-evitar-problemas-relacionados-a-dependencia-de-outras-empresas-e-paises/#

9-https://www.jstor.org/stable/2648753

10- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09595238300185081

Creators

lucasmalvao — 2024-04-25 17:37:22 UTC

Benjamin Portella
Ana Luísa Pena
Larissa Teixeira
Lucas Malvão

How Consumer Society affects the world

anapena16 — 2024-04-25 18:15:23 UTC

It affects because it has a negative effect of depleting resources and the pollution of the nature. But on the other hand, it increases economic and create jobs, but even though the consumer society work isn't sustainable.

How Environmental Degradation impacts on the world

lucasmalvao — 2024-04-25 18:16:32 UTC

Environmental Degradation is impacting all of us, the deforestation is on factor in the Environmental degradation, the production of agriculture products is one reason for deforestation which can cause a lot of damage on the environment. It causes a lot of climate changes, the global warming is a consequence, it also causes a lot of destruction of habitats. This is some consequences of environmental degradation.

Causes of Environmental Degradation

lucasmalvao — 2024-04-25 23:07:21 UTC

Deforstation
Exaggerated extraction of natural resources
Urbanization
Production Decentralization
Transport activities

Causes of Production decentralization

lucasmalvao — 2024-04-25 23:23:21 UTC

Taxes Reduction
Cheap work forces
Softer labor and environmental legislation
Land with low prices

The huge multinational corporations only wants to produce their products on a large scale, fast and cheaper, so the countries that have these factors attract these corporations.

Consequences of Production Decentralization

anapena16 — 2024-04-28 20:54:57 UTC

One of the main consequences is the reduce economies of scale, and it tends to have a higher manufacturing cost per unit, because is scattered in different locations. It can have benefits, even so can have problems like high cost, difficult of coordination, miss of visibility, reduction of efficiency and for finish bigger complexity.

Brazil is currently going through a process of product decentralization and some of the reasons are:

anapena16 — 2024-04-28 20:56:02 UTC

Environmental inspection
Salary reduction
Level of workplace infrastructure
More expensive labor

Causes of Production Decentralization

anapena16 — 2024-04-28 21:03:07 UTC

There are so many causes, nonetheless have the most important ones, like poor economic performances, the influential ideas of the free markets and government expenditures rising even more. This is the most three important ones for the goverments atend to decentralize their products and operations, it haves a competition within their services, and to privatize some functions and firms in the market.

Consequences of Environmental Degradation

anapena16 — 2024-04-28 21:05:09 UTC

Lack of water and food
⁠Increase in the risk of natural disasters
Cause the displacement of people
⁠Increased risk of infectious diseases