Sentences with phrase «affluent societies»

«Greed works most of the time, even for the large majority of people in affluent societies.»

Unless colossal efforts are undertaken now to halt the emission of greenhouse gases, those living in less affluent societies can expect to suffer from extremes of flooding, drought, starvation, disease, and death in potentially staggering numbers.

perhaps this is what happens when affluent societies lack sufficient existential fears like war or famine

If our hope is to deploy solar and wind capacity that maintains indefinitely the current throughput of energy in the world's affluent societies, then, yes, the situation is hopeless.

More affluent societies have lower birth rates which go a long way in reducing pollution, greenhouse gases, and the drain on natural resources.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

Not only have measures of wellbeing and happiness ceased to rise with economic growth but, as affluent societies have grown richer, there have been long - term rises in rates of anxiety, depression and numerous other social problems.

The dominance of salt in manufactured food in the sodium intake of affluent societies

Not only have measures of well - being and happiness ceased to rise with economic growth but, as affluent societies have grown richer, there have been long - term rises in rates of anxiety, depression, and numerous other social problems.

But there is also a wealth of clinical data showing that, even in affluent societies, breastfed babies, and their mothers incidentally, are much better off than formula fed babies.

So it seems that home - births ARE a great and safe option for well educated, healthy, wealthy, mothers who live in affluent societies with good infrastructure.

In less affluent societies, and in the past, we lived much more closely with other people.

The most obvious result is that poverty is overflowing geographical frontiers and gradually finding a place in the bosom of affluent societies.

Even in the face of economic turmoil, we are still one of the most affluent societies on earth.

We're also divided on what it means to serve the poor in an affluent society.

Certainly it must be tempting to look at all you're doing without, especially in comparison to much of our affluent society, and to feel that you are better, that you have demonstrated your faith and devotion — maybe even to feel you have done your part.

So even though trying to live faithfully as part of an affluent society, with all the temptations this entails, is in some ways more difficult and more uncomfortable than living the radical response, it does have several important advantages:

We have now considered several methodologies for arriving at a standard of what we must share of our own with the rest of the world if we are to remain a part of the middle class of an affluent society and still be faithful.

This is the great challenge to those of us who remain members of the affluent society, those of us who are unable or unwilling to make the sacrifices or the great change in lifestyle of the radical response: are we able to be serious about our faith?

We should finally be able to quit pretending that we know who Heidegger is, why Toynbee is to be regarded with suspicion, and what an affluent society really means.

Mariani notes that Stevens had a withdrawn manner at home and an unpleasant one in the office, but none of this stopped him from becoming rich and successful and, eventually, joining affluent society after the family settled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1916.

The pastor realizes that people's needs are virtually limitless, particularly in an affluent society in which there is an ever - rising threshold of desire (which we define as «need»).

Through much of the period from David to the fall of Jerusalem, Israel's life was not marked by the concern with hope, any more than is the life of the affluent society of the west today.

A little - known essay by Tocqueville after he visited England and tried to figure out why the most affluent society in Europe had the most paupers, while many impoverished societies apparently had none at all.

But in an affluent society one has got to be tempted, at least once, to see what it is like to be out from under the weight of so many possessions.

In a world where the marginalized and the drop outs of affluent society search desperately for comfort and identity in drugs or esoteric cults, how imperative it is to announce that he has come so that all may have life and may have it in all fullness (John 10: 10)!

The group has a strong sense of being in a particular place, urban America, and at a particular time; born in the twenties, just old enough [usually] to get into World War II, products of the affluent society, very conscious of being white.

However, this tendency is counteracted by the virtually endless outpouring of new products by an inventive and affluent society.

In 1970, JK Galbraith observed in The Affluent Society that «few things are more evident in modern social history than the decline of interest in inequality as an economic issue».

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's slogan is «explore to realize,» expressing «our philosophy of becoming an agency of realizing a safe and affluent society.»

«The quickest way to gain product acceptability in the less affluent society,» said a soy industry spokesman,»... is to have the product consumed on its own merit in a more affluent society.»

But this is less a play about bestiality than a modern version of Greek tragedy: an Oedipus Rex for the affluent society.

Although specific numbers aren't available, it's clear that Bingham and White helped draw more affluent Society Hill families to McCall.

Martin Luther King saw others «smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society» and knew it was morally wrong to turn away.

Current & Last 6 Books: Galbraith's The Affluent Society; Hunt's Hannibal; Davis» Policing the Black Man, Soni & Goodman's A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age; Child's The Midnight Line; Mievelle's October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.

A thousand years ago, the maritime traders of Ambergris had built a large and affluent society.

The exhibition deals with the social isolation of the individual and the lack of communication that Elmgreen & Dragset attribute to an affluent society and consumer culture.

From Hannah Arendt's copy of The Affluent Society, found between pages 278 - 279; Katja Novitskova, Warlords, 2010; Aki Sasamoto

In the words of Marshall Sahlins, hunter - gatherers were «the original affluent society.»

Anyway to me these are all signs of an affluent society with the discretionary wealth to make certain choices.

The soft, easy life of an affluent society may be our undoing.Our forefathers had it tough.

«My husband and I deliberated for years about whether to have a child at all, partly because parenting in an affluent society is, shall we say, a carbon - intensive activity, and partly because we knew that future generations will probably have to contend with the consequences of a severely disrupted climate.

Unwanted «junk» from an affluent society, transformed into affordable transport for the poor.

Not exact matches

It is they who are reminding voters that casinos redistribute wealth from the poorest in society up the ladder towards the most affluent, make no contribution to long term economic growth, and cause social ills in the communities where they are built.

Likewise it is heresy to suppose that the affluent and those who have more than their fair share of power and status in society deserve to be ignored or blamed for their circumstances to the extent that the church makes them no offer of grace since they already enjoy so many of the other good things of life.

«We live in one of the most affluent cultures in history where many of the values of an increasingly materialistic society stand in direct conflict with the gospel vision,» they charged.

Historically the Churches have generally been rather on the side of the wealthy and powerful due to the common interests of the Churches and of the affluent in society.

Obviously, there are many people in affluent, industrial societies who have interesting work and live in satisfying communities.

If I were running the government, I would see to it that school districts that serve the poor would have a larger share of the tax revenue than school districts that serve the affluent, for in the poor districts there is far more ground to be made up to provide the open equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity must be a part of every just society.

If we act, it is because God has loved us, because we have been saved, because God's Spirit dwells in us, because we have received revelation, and not at all in order that we may be saved, or that others may be converted, or that society may become Christian or happy or just or affluent, or that we may overcome hunger or be good politicians.