中文摘要：

消费不是一种单纯的经济现象，而是一种体现人的道德价值观的伦理文化现象。由于人类的消费行为对生态环境的影响日益突出，传统的消费模式给资源和环境带来巨大压力，使发展的可持续性受到挑战。消费方式是否得当，直接影响着人类赖以生存的环境。因此，建设生态文明必须从改变人类现有的消费方式入手，转变消费模式，推进消费方式的生态化，形成健康、合理的消费模式，塑造消费文明，这是实现人与自然和谐、建设生态文明的必然选择。

英文摘要：

Consumption is not a pure economic phenomenon, but rather an ethical cultural phenomenon reflecting people＇s moral values. Consumer behaviors have an increasingly prominent impact on the ecological environment and the traditional consumption patterns have created an enormous stress for resources and environments so that the sustainable development is challenged. Consumption patterns affect directly the environment human beings live. Therefore, it is essential to change our current consumption patterns, form an ecological, healthy and rational consumption pattern and shape a consumer civilization as to achieve the harmony between man and nature.