One, ensure the retail price of junk food reflects the social cost of its over-consumption.
They fear there will be an over-consumption of resources that will blight the planet.
Meanwhile, draconian price controls, the real cause of Argentina's underinvestment in energy and over-consumption of it, remain in place.
Instead, they may experience far more prosaic effects, which prevent them, and their family and friends, from recognizing their over-consumption.
Population and ConsumptionToo little consumption is the biggest challenge climate-change policy will face in the future, eclipsing the signifiance of over-consumption.
Using global data, Harvard researchers have estimated how many people in each of 187 countries likely died from causes linked to over-consumption of sugary drinks.
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In my view, injecting this post-consumerist perspective into environmental and energy policy would not address the gravamen of the global warming problem, which is not over-consumption but under-consumption.
This also encourages over-insurance and over-consumption of health care.
The implications of rising consumption in the developing world and receding consumption in developed countries does not mean we should ignore over-consumption, but rather that we should not consider it in a silo.
Population increase, over-consumption and galloping urbanisation have multiple consequences, including the increasing rarity of certain species of plants and animals, pollution, the over exploitation of land and the sea, as well as the spread of invasive alien species.
Our constant drive for selfish over-consumption at any cost, to benefit the few at the expense of the many and at the expense of Nature itself, is the real illness in our society that is causing all of this imbalance.
Our tax regime encourages such over-consumption.
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But we're very interested, at least in recent years in, you know, shows like "MTV Cribs" or "Real Housewives, " that really glorify, you know, over-the-top consumption.
The end goal is to provide natural human control over TV-based media consumption, said Berenson, who's working to get cameras in TVs themselves sometime late next year.
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In total, cities house more than half the world's population, and account for two-thirds of its energy consumption and over 60% of its greenhouse-gas emissions.
"I believe one of the problems is over consumption of gluten-containing grains, especially wheat, and the fact that it is genetically different from ancient wheat, " says naturopathic physician Hamish Everard.
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Although over three-fifths of the world's population live in Asia, they only account for just over one-fifth of global private consumption, much less than America's 30% share.
As we agonize over consumption and twist free-market principles to restore market confidence, the tragedy is that Washington's mistakes could be rectified at any time, ending the crisis.
Weak consumption has been a drag on consumer stocks, but as the economy starts to go up over the next 12 months, consumption-related stocks will recover.
This week, the LDP leader, Sadakazu Tanigaki, told the Wall Street Journal that the party may not continue to co-operate with Mr Noda over the consumption tax (the bill has yet to clear the upper house).
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There's no live programming -- just a database of show episodes and movies that you have your choice of either streaming or downloading for later consumption over 3G or WiFi -- which makes it a little bit like using an on-demand service from your cable company.
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Income is predicted to lag consumption on a year-over-year basis.
Over that period, meat consumption in developing countries rose five-fold, three times as fast as in developed countries.
Per-capita consumption is expected to grow by 10% annually over the next five years.
U.S. consumers have already shown to be sensitive to higher prices with total motor gasoline consumption down more than 2 percent on a year-over-year basis during the second quarter.
Chinese power consumption rose in April by 3.7% year-over-year, down significantly from the previous month.
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In Finland, SMS consumption of iPhone owners declined at a -20% rate over the same time period.
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Corporate restructuring is going to happen over a two-to-three-year period, so the employment situation and consumption outlook aren't positive.
Consumption, participation, content and creation are all up year-over-year.
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