Sentences with phrase «capita consumption of»

Studies done near the end of prohibition in 1932 and used by Mark Thornton in the following article labelled prohibition a failure as per capita consumption of alcohol had actually been decreasing prior to prohibition, rose during prohibition.

Even accounting for population growth, from 1960 to 2006 the per capita consumption of natural resources globally tripled.

The average per - capita consumption of farmed seafood has increased nearly 1,000 percent since 1970, in contrast to per - capita meat consumption, which grew just 60 percent.

Typically as human populations and per - capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.

Other countries in the area, such as the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand all have fairly low per capita consumption of electricity.

Changes in consumption volume caused exclusively by changes in per capita consumption of goods and services

Most of those people will be fairly poor (by Western standards, though hopefully less so than their forbearers), which means their per - capita consumption of resources will be fairly low.

But California has low per - capita consumption of electricity mainly because California has a temperate climate — for residents near the coast — while relying heavily on natural gas for residential heating.

It can enable reasonable living standards to be obtained with smaller per capita consumption of resources, but more efficient technology can also lead to increasing extraction rates — chainsaw logging of forests and industrial scale deep sea fishing, for example.

Based on the per capita consumption of electricity in India, the power production of the plant is sufficient to supply 165.000 people with clean electricity from residual rice husk.

My generation of elders appears to be mortgaging and threatening the future of coming generations by remaining religiously focused upon the endless accumulation of material wealth, the unrestrained increase in per capita consumption of limited resources, and the continuous consolidation of political / military power used to conquer Earth.

Put another way, not seeing that the colossal size of the multi-trillion dollar global economy is soon to become unsustainable in the relatively small, bounded world we inhabit is a misperception; not seeing that increasing per - capita consumption of Earth's limited resources by six billion, soon to be nine billion, people can not go on much longer, much less forever, is a mistaken impression; and not seeing that absolute global human population numbers, just like the population numbers of other species, can not increase endlessly, relative to a limited resource base, is a misconception, I suppose.

If we keep doing what we are doing now — as we relentlessly grow global economic production capabilities, adamantly condone skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers, and foolishly raise the level of per capita consumption of limited resources — are we not likely to keep getting what we are getting now?

Climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, a senior researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric research, says that each and every person in the world would have to reduce his and her per capita consumption of fossil fuels by 75 percent to keep additional future temperature increases to no more than 1 degree.

A global warming phenomenon in our spaceship is one of several unintended effects of the unregulated, swift increase of 1) absolute global human population numbers, 2) per capita consumption of limited resources, and 3) large - scale business activities that could be occurring synergistically and approaching a point in history when it will not be possible for the Earth's resource base and frangible ecosystems services to sustain life as we now know it to be.

Humanity could soon be confronted with a huge challenge that takes its astounding shape from continuously skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers as well as from economic globalization and per - capita consumption of limited resources by the human species.

Perhaps now is an appropriate occasion to discuss how the family of humanity could begin the limit INCREASES ONLY in the growth of unrestricted per - capita consumption of Earth's resources, untethered economic globalization, and skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers.

unrestrained per - capita consumption of Earth's limited resources and 3.

Growing per capita consumption in these enormous markets will allow global per capita consumption of Coca - Cola to rise for a long time to come.

In the US, the per capita consumption of 8 - fluid - ounce beverages is over 400 per year.

Specifically, per capita consumption of salad and cooking oils increased 130 %, shortening consumption increased 136 %, and margarine consumption increased 410 % (22).

Per capita consumption of vegetable oils in the United States from 1909 — 1919 to 1990 — 1999.

Per capita consumption of sucrose in England from 1815 to 1970.

The US rounded out the top 5, with a per capita consumption of 246 eggs per person per year.

Between 1970 and 2000, the per capita consumption of HFCS in the U.S. increased from less than one pound per person to over sixty pounds yearly.3

Fructose consumption, in the form of high fructose corn syrup (ratio of fructose / glucose 60/40 %), increased from near 0 % to near 30 % of per capita consumption of refined sugars in the USA between 1970 and 2000, whereas the consumption of sucrose and glucose declined or remained constant [3].

Between 1970 and 2000, there was a 25 % increase in the per capita consumption of all refined sugars in the USA, matching a worldwide trend [3].

By World War II, the increased availability of sugar allowed yearly per capita consumption of 24 g / day.

The United States, by the way is the undisputed heavyweight champion of HFCS with a per capita consumption of almost 55 pounds.

Figure 18 shows the per capita consumption of salt in the five developed countries.

In the 18 countries shown in figure 17, per capita consumption of salt has generally been between a few kilograms per person and 200 kilograms per person.

Salt differs from the three mineral commodities discussed earlier in an important respect — world per capita consumption of salt (production divided by world population) dropped between 1970 and 1995.

Per capita consumption of salt has fallen slightly in France, the UK, and the United States.

Per capita consumption of salt rose in the Federal Republic of Germany through 1990 but per capita consumption fell in the reunified Germany in 1995.

Figure 17 is a plot of per capita consumption of salt for eighteen countries, with reported statistical data on production and trade for the years 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, and 1995.

A high proportion of multiple - family housing, which reduces per capita consumption of land, infrastructure and just about everything else.

Over the past 20 years, per - capita consumption of nuts and seeds has decreased in children 3 to 6 years old, while the consumption of savory snacks — like chips and pretzels — increased.

We are not going to lower per capita consumption of energy in the U.S..

Annual per capita consumption of both heating and industrial fuels and transportation fuels is shown in GJ (gigajoules, where 1 GJ is about two - thirds the energy of a typical lightning bolt).

With current per - capita consumption of cocoa in Ghana standing at 0.5 kilogramme, the President stated that this should increase to one kilogramme per Ghanaian in the short - to - medium term, and should begin with inculcating the habit of consuming cocoa in Ghanaian children.

«The per capita consumption of fluid milk, in all of its formulations, has been declining in the U.S. since the 1960s,» says Cameron Thraen, a dairy economist at Ohio State University.

«It makes sense for all kids to reduce the amount of dye they take in,» says Arnold, who says that per capita consumption of artificial food dyes has quadrupled in the last 50 years.

The per capita consumption of milk and milk products is higher in developed countries, but the gap with many developing countries is narrowing.

Based on average alcohol content levels, per capita consumption of pure alcohol was 8.09 litres per person.

The per capita consumption of plastics in Ethiopia has grown by about 15 % annually over the past ten years, from 0.6 kg in 2007 to 2.4 kg in 2017 and is estimated to be 3.2 kg in 2020.

China's per capita consumption of milk, butter and whole - milk powders has been growing at 5 per cent a year since 2010.

In America per capita consumption of soft drinks has fallen about 25 per cent since peaking at about 200 litres per person in the 1990s.

Per capita consumption of poultry meat has grown over the past five years as consumers switched to healthier white meat options, and as the range of available processed chicken products diversified.

According to the Produce for Better Health Foundation, per capita consumption of vegetables in America declined by 7 % between 2009 and 2014.

Over the past decade in the EU - 15, per capita consumption of cheese has increased by 1 kg (2.2 lbs) to reach 19.8 kg (43.7 lbs).