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In Consommation et Production Durables, students consider and reflect on their lifestyle and the impact it has on global sustainability. Our planet is running out of resources, but the world population continues to grow. If the global population reaches 9.8 billion by 2050, the equivalent of almost three planets will be required to provide the natural resources needed to sustain current lifestyles. We need to change our consumption habits and shift our energy supplies to more sustainable ones if we are going to reduce our consumption levels.
The big ideas that will provide the practical lenses for students' inquiry are:
Invisible supply chains / interdependence
Linear vs. circular economy
Power, history, and whose labor is extracted
The essential questions that students will explore in this module are:
How do individual fashion consumption and production choices interconnect with global sustainability challenges?
What is the individual's role in transforming global fashion consumption and production patterns?
How do our fashion consumption and production patterns impact global ecological systems?
How do our current fashion consumption and production patterns perpetuate global inequalities?
Students should be able to develop the following enduring understandings:
Individual choices are simultaneously local and global, creating ripple effects that extend beyond immediate contexts.
Resources are not infinite, and every act of consumption represents a consequential exchange within planetary boundaries.
True economic prosperity must be decoupled from material consumption and reimagined through regenerative and circular principles.
Sustainable development requires recognizing humans as stewards rather than owners of planetary resources.
Sustainable consumption cannot be achieved without addressing global economic inequalities.
Sustainable consumption requires fundamental shifts in cultural narratives about progress, success, and well-being.
Industrial systems built on "extract-produce-discard" generate waste as a structural feature, not an accident; circularity requires redesigning the system, not just individual behavior.
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