Sentences with word «affluenza»

In the midst of this most dangerous game are the brilliant creations of Amanda and Lily: deadly cases of affluenza mixed with the horrors of burgeoning womanhood.
An added benefit to having kids volunteer, whether it's to help an elderly neighbor or make sandwiches for needy families at their church, is that your kids will be less likely to be spoiled or suffer from affluenza and be more likely to be kind and empathetic people as they grow.
If we want to cure affluenza, we have to get more satisfaction from the things we already own, more satisfaction from services, more satisfaction from leisure time, and less satisfaction from the process of buying new things.»
So begins Beyond Affluenza, a recent public television special made in Seattle.
That should help vaccinate your tween against affluenza.
Finley's underlying commentary on affluenza and white privilege is thwarted by the murder plot and focal point of violence.
The sensational sequel to Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan's China Rich Girlfriend is a 24 - karat exploration of money, mores and extreme affluenza in modern - day Asia.
by NWEI on December 13, 2012 1 Advent Affluenza consumerism Dorothy Day Center for Faith and Justice Voluntary Simplicity Xavier University
What is the prescribed vaccine for affluenza?
Dave Wann is author of Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle and co-author of the bestselling book Affluenza: The All - Consuming Epidemic.
Known as the «affluenza teen,» 20 - year - old Ethan Couch is escorted from the Tarrant County Community Supervision and Corrections Department on Monday.
As the Advent season approaches, more people are suffering from affluenza than influenza from the cold weather.
The author of «Curing Affluenza: How to buy less stuff and save the world» argues that, if consumerism is about the love of buying things, then materialism is the love of things themselves.
Kanye West antics, is it affluenza?
For Robert Wuthnow, Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney, it is «declining birth rates»; for Tony Campolo, «affluenza»; for Martin Marty, «weekend trips»; for John Buchanan, lack of «mission» (defined as outreach ministries); and for Will Willimon, it's because «Rotary meets at a more convenient time.»
The one - hour program and its prequel, Affluenza, document the current expression of an ideal that recurs throughout American history — simplicity.
One of my clients called the sickness this creates in our children «affluenza».
Being ungrateful and greedy There are few things more unattractive than kids who are spoiled, greedy, and full of self - entitlement and affluenza.
The difference between white and black teens isn't simply anymore that pot smoking white teens get sent to rehab and black teens go to jail, no, nowadays it's that white teens can kill 4 people and still get probation slap on the wrist (Ethan Couch, affluenza) and black teens GET KILLED, Travon Martin.
Her defense sounds about as phony as «affluenza» or «my dog ate it.»
6) Somebody has a bad case of affluenza.
Affluenza is what The Dinner is really about, Laura Linney's character even refers to the term coined to describe children raised in wealth who don't understand, or are not punished for the consequences of their actions.
Look at the words that have arisen to describe our sense of entitlement: words like «consumerism» and «shopaholics» and «affluenza» and «selfish capitalism» and «consumercide» and the counter «sustainable living.»
Some analysts of the situation have focused particularly on the «bottom billion,» others on what one documentary called «Affluenza
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Clive is the author of a number of best - selling books, including Growth Fetish, Affluenza (with Richard Denniss), and Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change.
The online Macquarie Dictionary now lists the recent coinage «affluenza», a word meaning «the dissatisfaction that accompanies consumerism as a path to happiness».
They include Growth Fetish (2003), Affluenza (with Richard Denniss, 2005), Silencing Dissent (edited with Sarah Maddison, 2007), Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change, (2010) and What Do We Want?
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Another common waste item from our era of affluenza is electronics, or e-waste, which can yield valuable metals and glass that don't require mining or extensive processing to reclaim, but which often end up getting literally trashed instead of recycled.
Someone, somewhere in the world, has to deal with the fall - out of our rampant consumerism, our affluenza, our addiction to fast fashion, and it's hardly fair to dump that on developing nations.
Structure your wealth to avoid the concept of «affluenza,» which occurs when adult children don not have experience to manage sudden wealth
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