Consumerism, this principle is to the effect that buyers in markets purchase
goods associated with positive responsible environmental and social processes.
All over the world consumers play a very important role in the achievement of sustainable development goals including the protection of the environment, this is due to the ability of a consumer to choose between ungreen and not eco friendly products and services or between green and eco-friendly product and services.Consumption of consumers has an impact on the world and this means that to ensure a safe environment, people understand the footprint of the products that they consume how they are made and how they will be disposed off, in understanding this concept, it forms an ethical principle that must therefore be upheld in order to ensure the sanctity and safety of the environment In ensuring the sanctity and safety of the environment, the principle that we must buy goods associated with positive responsible environmental purposes must be upheld. This principle can be explained in away that goods that are product of environmental degradation must not be purchased for example Charcoal that is mad efrom the cutting of trees must not be brought by consumers in order to help preserve the environment and ensure its safety. With consumerism as an ethical principle, it is upheld by buying ethically made products that support and protect the environment including animals while boycotting products from manufacturers that exploit workers and such products are also tested on animals or damage the environment. Examples of ethical consumerism may include buying of an electric car over a fuel powered car given the fact that fuel powered cars produce fume that eventually leads to pollution and hence degradation of the environment on the general scale. The principle of consumerism as an ethical principle emerged with the obligation to persevere the environment and now forms one of the may principles that must be upheld in ensuring the safety of the environment. Although consumerism is an ethical principle that must be upheld, it has its barriers and it is therefore important to note that it is time and cost prohibitive that is to say it is costly, However even with its challenges, the principle of consumerism is one of the many ethical principles that must be upheld in ensuring the sanctity and the safety of the environment.
Sustainability, this ethical principle is grounded in the concept of the well
being of the environment not only for the contemporary populations but also the well being and enhanced opportunities of the future generations, sustainability means that something is used and not depleted destroyed or damaged past its recovery, this in line with the question means that sustainability must be upheld as an ethical pricple in ensuring the safety and sanctity of the environment that is to say, while we must recognize that man exists alongside the environment and therefore does nee dthe environment to survive the usage of this environment must be in a sustainable manner rather tthan obe the is to destroy it. This principle is one that must be upheld in ensuring the sanctity and safety of the environment. This principle can be found under the declaration of ehical princples in relaation to climate change,