In other words, as people move out of utter poverty into the middle class lifestyle or something better, their resource demands for energy, for all kinds of materials, goes up. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
It really goes back to a period of utter poverty I lived in back in the early to mid 90's. (financialsamurai.com)
In the United States today, for example, 99.9 percent of us derive from families that came to the United States in utter poverty» the «wretched refuse» of the earth, as the poem on the Statue of Liberty said of our grandparents. (firstthings.com)