Lançamento? Talvez não. A sociedade de consumo, a obsolescência planejada e os reflexos desta prática no meio ambiente

Abstract

The present study aims to present the complex panorama about the commercial practice of planned obsolescence, as well as its socio-environmental repercussions. At first, a historical analysis of the relationship between human beings and the environment was carried out and then we explore how the very act of consumption begins to shape society. Therefore, the objective is to study the technique of planned obsolescence, a subject that will be detailed and conceptualized in this monograph, as well as its consequent consequences that can be observed in modern society, and it is also worth informing that this consumerist tactic was created, developed and consolidated by the industries that boosted mass consumption at a specific moment of human revolution. The implications of consumption in the social, economic and mainly environmental field are innumerable and for this reason we analyze the practice from the perspective of some of the important Brazilian legislations such as the Política Nacional de Meio Ambiente. And in this sense, with the study presented, we showed ourselves in favor of alternatives considered more appropriate to overcome this model of consumer society that for various reasons is already outdated. This monographic work uses the deductive method (logical method) having a bibliographic and documentary procedure, based on previous research, printed texts and documents or not. Thus, the research became mostly descriptive and exploratory.