For Carol Tokuyo, one of a group meeting under the banner "Youth and Environmental Justice", the culture of consumption and private gain is the root of the problem - the reason why humanity is on an unsustainable track.
This aggravated the overcapacity problem that only domestic consumption can fix.
The problem with climate change is excessive consumption by rich people, not procreation by poor people.
The problem runs through much of the consumption sensitive sectors of the economy.
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Indeed, the problem is not so much of supply as consumption.
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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.
The problem with the study, Diet Soft Drink Consumption is Associated with an Increased Risk of Vascular Events in the Northern Manhattan Study ( Gardner et al., Journal of General Internal Medicine) is that the numbers are low enough to leave us uncertain as to whether diet drinks were the cause or simply correlated with other factors that led to these events.
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For many conservationists, the near-extinction of numerous whale populations in the seventies, and their continued threatened status today, is emblematic of a much more severe problem: the wholesale harvesting, whether for human consumption or for industry, of too many living things from the sea.
But the bigger problem lies in framing soda taxes in terms of average consumption, such as 45 gallons of sugared drinks per person per year or the NHANES average of 203 kilocalories per person per day.
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The United States of America and the Russian Federation intend to increase cooperation in addressing the world drug problem, so as to radically reduce production and consumption of illicit drugs, as affirmed by resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
The problem with efficiency gains is that we inevitably reinvest them in additional consumption.
The problem in Brazil is not so much currency appreciation, but how its consumption based economic model interacts with a strong currency, says Tony Volpon, head of Latin America research at Nomura in New York.
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And that's why the consumption has been so high, and that's why it's such a problem that Exxon Mobil produced less oil in 2005 than it did in 2004.
The problem is that just as price changes have to be severe to manifest any impacts on gas consumption, price changes on their own also tend not to do much to inspire the development of radical new tech solutions, unless prices are through the roof.
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Luckily, with advances in technology and analytics, for the first time media companies have an opportunity to get their arms around the problem of corporate-wide rights management thanks to integrated solutions which manage the content from point of consumption all the way through to royalty and partner payments to invoicing the end customer.
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