CONSUMPTION ANALYSIS FOR HABIT CHANGES

Abstract

To achieve sustainability, it is essential that there is moderation between individual comfort, society and the environment; in which some changes in attitudes in the consumption actions carried out by several people cause major transformations. One of the intentions of environmental educators is to teach to transform people's thinking about consumption, so that development occurs without destroying. Thus, this work had the purpose of informing students through lectures presented in a state school in Navegantes-SC, fostering analyses to mitigate environmental impacts. The collective research was carried out in a public school, totaling 443 elementary and high school students in 2015. The students participated in the lecture entitled "Small Gestures to change the World - Conscious Consumption", where the reports were recorded by the participation of the students in circles of ideas, debates after the lectures, oral presentations and proposals for changes in their daily lives. It was found that the students have the desire to socialize their daily practices and thus, they themselves began a movement of direct analysis of how their customs interfere in the environment and that the change in their practice can solve daily difficulties of the school and family environment.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2024.041-041