Anti-consumerism is a
sociopolitical ideology that is opposed to
consumerism, the continual buying and consuming of material possessions. Anti-consumerism is concerned with the private actions of business corporations in pursuit of financial and economic goals at the expense of the public welfare, especially in matters of environmental protection,
social stratification, and
ethics in the governing of a society. In politics, anti-consumerism overlaps with
environmental activism,
anti-globalization, and
animal-rights activism; moreover, a conceptual variation of anti-consumerism is
post-consumerism, living in a material way that transcends consumerism.
