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ClearWhat is ecomodernism?
This review examines ecomodernism as an environmental philosophy, explaining its core argument that technological progress and resource use intensification can allow human flourishing while reducing land use pressure and environmental impacts through decoupling economic activity from ecological damage.
A New Philosophy for Sustainable Consumerism
This article discusses the challenge of reconciling sustainability goals with growth-based economies, using microplastic entry into the food chain as one example of the environmental costs of current consumption patterns. The author proposes a theoretical framework for enabling economic growth while maintaining long-term planetary health.
Research on Application of Environmental Protection Concept in Modern Product Design
This paper explores how principles of environmental sustainability are being integrated into modern product design, examining how green design concepts can reduce ecological impact while meeting consumer needs. The analysis calls for applying low-carbon, circular economy values throughout the product development process.
Harmonious and sustainable evolution of production
This paper examines the tensions between scientific and technological progress and contemporary environmental challenges, focusing on inadequate plastic waste management, microplastic dispersion from landfills, and the need to rethink single-use plastic and cosmetic products through a review of international regulations and a national case study.
The Dichotomy of Marketing Practice Today: Does it Help or Harm Our Society?
This review examines the dual societal role of modern marketing, analyzing both its benefits -- including innovation, competition, and improved consumer choice -- and its harms including consumerism promotion, environmental degradation, and social inequality. The authors present a balanced assessment of marketing practice within market-driven economies, addressing aspirational advertising and psychological manipulation as areas of concern.
The green economy transition: the challenges of technological change for sustainability
Researchers analyzed the major barriers to transitioning economies toward green, sustainable technologies, identifying five key challenges including managing global environmental risks, achieving radical rather than incremental change, and distributing the costs fairly. The article argues that addressing these challenges requires rethinking the roles of both private industry and government in driving sustainable innovation.
(Un)Sustainable transitions towards fast and ultra-fast fashion
Researchers developed a framework to analyze the sustainability tensions within the fashion industry, showing that while established brands are adopting green initiatives and new business models, the simultaneous rise of ultra-fast fashion is creating major negative environmental and social impacts that offset these gains. The study highlights the complexity of achieving genuine sustainability transitions in an industry driven by competing institutional pressures.
Economy or Environment? Sustainability from a Political Economy Perspective
This review examines environmental sustainability challenges from a political economy perspective, tracing the history of economic pressures on ecosystems from the mid-19th century to the present and evaluating theoretical frameworks and sustainability indicators used to monitor and limit the growing impact of economic systems on the natural environment.
Societal Relations to Nature in Times of Crisis—Social Ecology’s Contributions to Interdisciplinary Sustainability Studies
This review article examined how social ecology — an interdisciplinary field — approaches the crisis of societal relationships with nature, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. It provides theoretical frameworks relevant to understanding why plastic pollution persists despite growing awareness of its harms.
Social fields and natural systems: integrating knowledge about society and nature
This theoretical paper proposes combining sociological field theory with systems thinking to better analyze sustainability challenges. The integrated approach could help researchers understand how social structures shape human responses to environmental problems like plastic pollution.
Environmental issues resulting from scientific and technical progress
This article argues that unrestrained technological and scientific progress has created global environmental crises that now threaten life on Earth, emphasizing the urgency of rethinking humanity's relationship with nature. Plastic pollution and microplastics are among the key environmental consequences discussed.
The Philosophical Bottleneck of the Sustainable Development Ideal: The Problem of Future Generations
This article argues that sustainable development faces a core philosophical problem — moral responsibility toward future generations — and examines how Anthropocene-era threats including microplastics, nuclear waste, and climate change demand new ethical frameworks beyond traditional theories.
Role of Plastics in Modern Life: Benefits, Risks and Environmental Consequences
This review examines the dual role of plastics in modern society — their economic and practical benefits alongside growing environmental and health concerns — calling for a balanced approach to plastic use and waste management.
The Inevitable Collapse of Advanced Industrial Society.
This paper argues that the collapse of advanced industrial society is inevitable within the coming decades due to converging ecological, resource, and systemic crises. The author contends that industrial civilization represents a historical anomaly lasting roughly three hundred years, with severe costs in terms of ecological devastation and human suffering. The study suggests that factors including resource depletion, environmental degradation, and plastic pollution contribute to this trajectory.
From the Ecological Crisis of the Anthropocene to the Ecological Transition
This philosophical and scientific paper frames the current environmental crisis as an Anthropocene crisis involving not just climate change but the destabilization of the entire Earth system, including plastic pollution and biodiversity loss. The author argues that ecological transition requires systemic change in human-nature relationships.
Unsustainable Horizons
This article examined unsustainable development trajectories and their environmental consequences, discussing how current production and consumption patterns generate plastic pollution as part of broader ecological overshoot.
Investigating sustainability tensions and resolution strategies in the plastic food packaging industry—A paradox theory approach
This study investigates the sustainability tensions faced by plastic food packaging companies as they try to balance business goals with environmental responsibility. Using paradox theory, researchers found that companies navigate competing demands around food waste reduction, resource use, and climate impact through various resolution strategies.
Seeking Philosophical Foundations for Ecological Civilization: Natural Theology East and West
This philosophical paper explores the ecological and spiritual foundations needed to support sustainable civilization, arguing that environmental crises stem partly from a breakdown in humanity's relationship with nature. It contextualizes pollution challenges like microplastics within a broader ethical framework.
Reconciling industrialization and environmental protection for sustainable development in Bangladesh: The textile and apparel industry case
This paper analyzed the Bangladesh textile and apparel industry's path toward reconciling rapid industrialization with environmental protection, identifying policy measures needed to reduce pollution while sustaining economic growth.
Global Ocean Governance and Ecological Civilization
This study examines global ocean governance frameworks and argues that achieving 'ecological civilization' requires coordinated international responses to mounting threats including climate change, ocean acidification, microplastic pollution, and overexploitation of marine resources.
The Fashion Industry and its Problematic Consequences in the Green Marketing Era a Review
This narrative literature review examines the environmental and social consequences of the fast fashion industry and evaluates green marketing as a strategy for reducing negative impacts, drawing on Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar studies to assess how sustainability-driven consumer demand and corporate green practices can mitigate textile industry pollution.
A New Philosophy for Sustainable Consumerism
This opinion piece argued for a new philosophy of sustainable consumerism that moves away from demand-driven growth metrics, highlighting microplastic contamination of the food chain and climate change as urgent reasons to restructure the relationship between businesses, governments, and consumers.
Why Environmental Pollution Remains Unresolved Despite Efforts to Mitigate It?
This review examines why environmental pollution persists despite mitigation efforts, identifying industrialization, technological cost barriers, weak regulatory enforcement, regulatory capture by industrial lobbies, and insufficient public awareness as the primary systemic reasons that pollution control remains ineffective, particularly in developing nations.
Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis
This paper argues that the rapid pace of industrialization has created an environmental mismatch between the conditions humans evolved for and modern environments, using evolutionary biology to frame how pollution, urbanization, and ecosystem degradation affect human health.