#consumption

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

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With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

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Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? ↗

— David R. Brower

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It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health. ↗

— Michael Crapo

#best #children #choices #consumption #good

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. ↗

— Doug Larson

#being #called #consumption #dog #eaten

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

— Christopher Lasch

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We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. ↗

— Evo Morales

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

— Noam Chomsky

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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