Definition of "affluenzic"

The affluenzic society manages to commodify experiences that were previously some of life's freest and most shareable goods. This atrophy of higher human capacities is one of the great harms of the affluenzic society, which provides a host of gadgets and commodities on which to focus consumer desires and hopes that are inflated and deranged by intense marketing and advertising.

2010, Andrew Brennan, Y. S. Lo, “Beyond Individual Responsibility: Governance and the Affluenzic Society”, in Understanding Environmental Philosophy (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought), Durham: Acumen, page 189

The environmental analysts Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent write of high consumption being driven in the West – and on a global level – by a 'Coke and McDonalds[sic] culture', and they invoke the affluenzic impact of emulation and the key role of advertising.

2010, Kim Humphery, Excess: Anti-consumerism in the West, Cambridge, Malden, Mass.: Polity Press

[U]nless the affluenzic system finds ways of limiting its own expansion, then the system will become self-destructive, and whatever good it has brought to the stakeholders will be lost. If nation-states and multinational corporations care for their own future existence, then they have a profound interest in ensuring that the affluenzic system in which they have been thriving does not end up destroying itself and everyone in it.

2011, Andrew Brennan, Y. P. Lo, “Two Global Crises, Ethics Renewal, and Governance Reform”, in Ved P. Nanda, editor, Climate Change and Environmental Ethics, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, page 137