How much do we consume? This question is to be major challenge for human to protect the environment. Humans consume goods and services for many reasons: clothe, nourish, and houses ourselves, certainty. However, we also consume as part of a social satisfaction, since social group has standards of dress, food, education, shelter and entertainment that influence its patterns of consumptions through physical survival.
Human consumption also linked with human welfare. Poverty is marked by a lack of consumption, and thus a lack of opportunities for a healthy and satisfying life, with employment, mobility, nutrition, and education.
Beside of human benefits, consumption can lead to serious pressure on ecosystems. Consumption destroy ecosystem directly through mining of soil nutrients, overharvesting of animals and plants, or other forms of biological depletion. Ecosystems suffer indirectly through pollution; waste from industry, agriculture, and energy use; and also through fragmentation by roads and other infrastructure that are a part of the production and transportation networks that feed consumers.
