#consumption

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#indulgence #many #now #self #tend

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#change #consumption #everything #huge #i

Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy. ↗

— John Baldacci

#consumption #economy #energy #energy consumption #environment

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#big mac #communion #consumption #mac

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#activity #alcohol #cigarette #cigarette smoking #consumption

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol. ↗

— Susan George

#automobiles #build #carbon #consume #consumption

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production. ↗

— Susan George

#consumption #contribute #lot #people #production

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumption #mass #model #organized #ownership

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#consumption #control #distracted #force #own

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. ↗

— Adam Smith

#consumer #consumption #end #far #interest