Motion 8 Blog 18

"This house believes that conscious consumerism has done more harm than good towards the beneficiaries of these campaigns/advocacies".
Conscious consumerism is the ability to decide how to spend your money and what products to buy, where the products come from and how the companies handle your money. It may do harm cause people who are waiting for its benefits may become dependent which lead to worse cases. But for me it can do more good for it will not only help the beneficiaries but also help the consumers for being conscious of the products they buy and conscious to the environment. You are not called conscious consumer if you just buy products without even knowing the backgrounds of it. The companies can also benefit from it. If companies are also socially conscious/responsible, for example, "A coffee corporation imports coffees from a country divided into two, evil land and fair land. Evil land offer their coffees at a cheaper price which is not fair for their coffee farmers. They are the only ones who can benefit it, not the farmers. Fair land offer their coffees at a fair price which helps not only them but also their coffee farmers. Because that coffee corp. imports only those expensive but responsibly sourced coffees so not only them can benefit but also the consumers and others.(Sir I forgot and I cannot find the site of my reference for this example sir sorry, but clearly this isn't my example.). For me conscious consumerism is best not only for the environment but for the world. I would prefer to be on the opposition side than the government.