Climate change as a trigger to industrial trends: benefits and implications.

While scientists struggle to provide robust evidences about the human weight on the climate change phenomenon the industry sector steps sharply to use the theme as a commercial appeal. The rationale behind industry strategy is simple. First, the sense or urgency within the discussions on climate change operates as both stimulus to the premature shortening of devices’ life cycle and as an inductor for the development of better energy efficient and lower emission devices. Second, industries from several sectors answer this demand gap by flooding the market with green labeled products.

This dynamic produces positive and negative effects. Among the positive results is the noticeable progress in the development of environment friendly technologies that ultimately contributes to lowering environmental pressure. The negative side effects include the growth in consumerism behavior that in some level might jeopardize the expected environmental dividends since the excessive quantity of new goods would in some degree overcome the marginal gains of the products substitution. Another major negative consequence is the unprecedented record in waste generation, an issue hard to measure and that has been relegated to a secondary status in the current environment debate.