Consumerism, the root of all that is bad

Consumerism, it has existed throughout time and still exists today. As long as there are human beings on this Earth, there will be consumerism. Eventually, we will consume all and everything that there will be nothing left to consume and all that we are left with is nothing. Bauman goes into that idea and compares consumption with destruction and dismantling. An example of this is gas. As we consume more and more gas for our everyday tasks, we begin to destroy the Earth and deplete the Earth of Earth even further. We have all been effected by skyrocketing oil prices and we all know the reasoning behind it, consumerism. In malls, consumerism also plays a major role because it’s always “out with the old and in with the new.” Everybody wants to buy the newest ipod or the newest fashion trends and the old items that were originally there are thrown out and obsolete.
We realize that consumerism is bad but we don’t really react until it is too late. Global warming, oil depletion, recycling to reduce pollution, are just some of the crisis we face today and this all rooted from consumerism. Eventually we are all going to consume everything until there is nothing left but each other. Then what happens next?