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" ... You can see trouble brewing in the word’s early origins. The Oxford English Dictionary tells us “consumer” comes from the Latin “consumere” – “to destroy, wear away, to kill, annul, extinguish, wear down, exhaust, to eat, devour, to take (a medicine), use up, expend, swallow up, merge, to spend (money, resources or time), waste, squander.” It’s rooted in the rapacious exhaustion of resources, and therefore it assumes an outdated model of economic success. The days when unbridled consumption was a consequence-free engine of growth are long past; people from Buffalo to Beijing see, and are troubled by, pollution, damage to the environment, and climate change. By focusing our minds on consumption, and thus framing success as more of it, the word channels our thinking into an economic dead end. Long-term success will come from figuring out ways to reduce, not increase, consumption of resources, and from thinking of people as willing allies in that effort. ... "