My View on Evolving Consumerism On a warm afternoon in July, thousands of people file into Wimbledon, tickets ready in hand. What they await is a seat, a (hopefully) exciting tennis match, and, more importantly, a story. Strawberries and cream, the familiar dress code, rituals repeated every year. Long after the final point is forgotten, the value of the day survives in anecdotes shared over the dinner table, photographs, and the quiet way it becomes woven into one’s sense of

Essay question: In the context of global sustainability efforts, explore the role of consumerism in shaping economic practices. How do trends like fast fashion and drop-shipping impact the economic and environmental landscapes of developing countries? Additionally, discuss how ESG metrics influence corporate profitability and sustainability practices across different economies. In the 19th century, the average American only owned a few outfits in their wardrobe. Today, brands

In a world where governments pursue prosperity at all costs, humanity’s blind faith in economic development has become misguided. While economic growth has historically improved living standards, industrialised economies still continue to chase these superficial numbers, even as global biodiversity loss amounts to USD 10 trillion annually (Biodiversity, 2025) and over 22.5 million people are displaced per year due to weather-related disasters (Torres and Casey, 2017). The inn

Artificial intelligence (AI) is commonly defined as a technology enabling machines to imitate various complex human skills (Sheikh et al). AI has existed for a long time, but it was only due to ChatGPT’s breakthrough in 2022 that AI became rapidly used and attracted enormous investments. Nowadays, AI has been integrated into society’s daily life, from virtual assistance to data analysis, providing faster, more efficient ways of doing tasks. AI offers the potential to reconstr

Descartes, in a fit of suspicion and doubt of the world, declared, “Cogito, ergo sum.” I think, therefore I am.  In his process of Cartesian Method of doubt, he had torn down all his previous beliefs and interrogated every aspect of the world, leaving behind one solipsistic conclusion: we can only be sure of our own existence in our experience of the world, and thus can never know whether the world we experience is real. Aristotle claimed that our knowledge and by extension e