Consumption Pattern Quotes

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

When people retire, their income drops much more sharply than their consumption. As a result, they stop saving and start drawing down the assets they've acquired during their high-saving years. That could start to put upward pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on stock prices.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.

I'm as guilty as anyone else of listening to music track by track.

I just like to eat, buy food, eat food. Eating is my hobby.

I drink a lot of juice.

The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.

I never have been a big coffee drinker.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By all measures that we can come up with right now,. with the lifestyle and consumption pattern of the Western industrial civilization, we can probably sustain about 2 billion people on this earth. We already have over 6 billion. China and India are aspiring to come on as industrial nations, aspiring to the lifestyle of the Western world, and it simply can't happen.

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental.

One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.

The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.

Whatever your favorite food is, if you eat it every day for a month, you're going to get sick of it.

I come from the streaming world, so the changing trend of consuming music that way is positive for me.