Early in the age of affluence that followed World War ll,an American retailing analys named Victor Lebow proclaimed;-|||-Our enormously productive economy.demands that we make consumption our way of life:that we convert the buying and-|||-use of Eoods into rituals,that we seek our spirttual satisfaction,ou ego satisfaction,in consumption...We need things-|||-consumed, bumed up,worn out,replaced and discarded at an ever increasing rate."-|||-Americans have responded to Lebow`s call.and much of the world has followed.Consumption has become a central pillar of life in-|||-industrial lands and is even embedded in social values.-|||-Opinion sunveys in the world`s two largest economies Japan and the United States-show consumerist definitions o-|||-success becoming ever more prevalent.-|||-Overconsumption by the world`s fortunate is an environmental problem unmatched in severity by anything but perhaps-|||-population growth. Their surging exploitation of resources threatens to exhaust or unalterably spoil forests, soils,water,air and climate.-|||-Ironically,high consumpti may be a mixed blessing in human terms, too.The time-honored values of integrity of-|||-character, good work,friendship,family and community have often been sacrificed in the rush to riches. Thus many in the-|||-industrial lands have a sense that their world,of plenty is somehow hollow-that,misled by a consumerist culture,they have-|||-been fruitlessly attempti to satisfy what are essentially social,psychological and spirtua needs with material things.-|||-Of course,the opposite of overcon rconsumption-poverty-is no solution to either environmental or human problems. It is infinitely worse for people-|||-and bad for the natural world too.Dispossessessed peasa slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of-|||-Latin American, and hungry nomads turn their herds out onto fragile African grassland, reducing it to desert If environmental-|||-destruction results when people have either too little or too much,we are left to wonder how much is enough.What level of-|||-consumption can the earth support? When does having more cease to add noticeably to human satisfaction?-|||-[单项选择题]-|||-The emergence of the affluent society after World War ll __ --|||-A-|||-gave birth to a new generation of upper class consumers-|||-B-|||-gave rise to the dominance of the new egoism-|||-C-|||-led to the reform of the retailing system-|||-D-|||-resulted in the worship of consumerism