Consumerism: Global Warming and Technology Cellular Phone

Consumerism: From Luxuries to Necessities Nowadays, consumerism has been a dangerous problem to human being, especially for them who live in big cities. What is consumerism? According to Oxford Dictionary, consumerism is ~{!0~}the preoccupation of society with the acquisition of goods~{!1~} (1). To me, consumerism is a way of thinking that increase consuming goods in bigger increment or change one~{!/~}s lifestyle will provide greater benefit without thinking of their true needs. Consumerism will bring more harm than good because it can lead to financial problem, reduce health, damage our environment, and damage our relationship with others in society. Consumerism encourages people to buy anything that are up-to-date. They are most likely to change their things to the latest one, such as plasma TV, high technology cellular phone and newest fashion. These will help the country~{!/~}s economy to grow, because trading flows very well in that condition. The citizens will be all developed to a more modern community. People will try to invent more that can help to raise their standard of living. If the country is economically better off, then other area will likely be to be affected in a positive manner, then so does the other field; like politically and militarily.
However, if this happens for a long term, the local producers are unable to provide sufficient amt of good according to the demand. They will start to import goods from other country, which will increase the value of other currency. Automatically, this will lower down the country~{!/~}s currency itself. The result is inflation will occur.
Moreover, citizen wouldn~{!/~}t save so much money in the bank because they tend to spend their money for buying those goods. This will lead to financial problem and poverty because their income will be lower then their expense. When their savings cannot cover up their expenditure, poverty will come about in long term effect. Thus, this will put strain on the