Sentences with phrase «for more consumption»

As long as the dominant ethos is the drive for more consumption per capita — ever greater accumulation and consumption of material goods, energy, etc., then no amount of efficiency will suffice.

«With all the inefficiencies being eliminated and all the time being created, it allows for more consumption and quantity, and the cost of those goods and services is going to continue coming down.

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But the very fact that the warning was leaked suggests it may have been more for public consumption than anything else.

If you develop a reading list in advance you'll not only be more focused in your information consumption, but you'll also avoid wasting time searching for the right articles or titles to read.

Using data from a large - scale study that tracked participants» diet and health information for more than a decade, researchers found an association between moderate chocolate consumption and a lowered risk for atrial fibrillation.

The company is best known for online list - based articles and quizzes and is trying to better attract more young internet - focused audiences who have different consumption patterns from their parents.

The good news for investors is the promise held out by a growing cadre of companies working to take on that infrastructure upgrade, turning unusable water into something we can drink and making water consumption more efficient.

The EPA's recent move to roll back automobile fuel efficiency standards benefits almost no one except auto manufacturers, who save on R&D costs, and oil companies, for whom greater fuel consumption translates into more revenues.

Power consumption for all cryptocurrencies is on track to use more electricity in 2018 than the whole of Argentina, according to Bloomberg.

We will see a lot more innovation around consumption for content, consumption for knowledge, and consumption for entertainment happening much more quickly than we will see in the U.S.

More important than what devices Gen C are using, however, is how they're using them: as tools for participation, not passive consumption.

The net bullish position was equivalent to 1.411 billion barrels of crude and fuels - enough to satisfy global oil consumption for more than two weeks.

Gartner estimates that six billion devices will be «connected» to the internet by 2020, collecting data for consumption, analytics, and a whole lot more.

With more cars on the road, energy consumption and C02 emissions will drive demand for even more efficiencies and change how cars are made.

A more detailed breakdown of the loan data on Monday showed sharp pick - ups in demand for credit from both households and companies, auguring well for consumption and investment.

But while that may be bad for some banks» bottom lines it could aid homeowner balance sheets, leading to more consumption in the economy.

For the second goal of moving us closer to a consumption - tax and away from the taxation of capital income, I have more mixed views.

«We care more about the lack of stresses for the near - 70 % slice of GDP known as «personal consumption» than we do about the 4.5 % slice known as durable goods shipments,» Porcelli said.

But given the rise of news organizations aimed at younger adults, and the relatively high news consumption rates of young adults on social media and elsewhere, the reality may be more challenging for news organizations than that.

While consumers extracted home equity and took on more debt during 2007, they reverted to actively paying down debt during 2009, creating a remarkable $ 480 billion reversal in cash flow available for consumption in just two years.

Can consumption grow at close to 10 % for ten years while household income grows much more slowly?

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

Andrew Mackenzie, CEO of BHP Billiton, told a conference in Beijing in June last year he expects rising Chinese demand for materials with more consumer uses, such as copper, while greater food consumption could lead to more demand for the soil nutrient potash:

If China was investing in better health care, more retirement facilities for their aging population, and cleaning up their air (putting scrubbers on all their power plans) and water (forcing firms to stopping dumping industrial waste in their rivers), and generally providing more consumption goods and services to their own workers, THAT would be a step forward.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

I've become even more so a huge proponent of really asking yourself how do you optimize your whole your whole food consumption for a wide variety of nutrients.

Many investors believe that China is currently under - represented in global equity indices relative to its economic influence (for example, China represents roughly 17 % of global GDP, 11 % of global trade, and 9 % of global consumption but today comprises only a 3.5 % weight in the MSCI ACWI Index).1, 2 Given the size of the China A-shares market, inclusion in global indices is regarded as key to bringing China's overall representation more closely in line.

Not that you want to bash younger readers, but this USDA survey found that Millennials purchase more costly, prepared food than any other generation because «prepared foods, sugar and candies, and pasta all require minimal preparation for consumption, while grains and meats require cooking.»

What's more, with the U.S. accounting for a minuscule 10 % of global consumption, it lacks the wherewithal to single handedly lift global aluminum markets.

We believe the main factor that drove the most significant bull market in U.S. stock market history (household debt that enabled unrestricted consumption of everything from goods and services to homes) will reverse and continue the deleveraging process that will more than likely continue for a very long time.

Well, economists like to make the case for more emphasis on consumption taxation relative to income taxes, which can have incentive effects on work effort, savings and risk taking.

We're not sure if it should be cause for concern that the doggy cupcakes cost more than the ones meant for human consumption...

@eqlizer: The problem is that Christians more so than any other theist group are trying to hijack history (U.S. is a Christian nation) and science (Intelligent Design), rebrand it with Christian bias, and sell it for public consumption.

It is not always a dogmatic and insensitive cleric that inflicts pain and discouragement on those whose faith calls them to seek a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God than that marketed for mass (lowest common denominator) consumption by the institutional church.

In truth, for millions of Americans - hard - working Americans - leisure has come to mean little more than an ever more furious orgy of consumption.

Although all human activity, labour and consumption no less than prayer or friendship, aim ultimately at the one good of serving God, different activities are more suited for different specks or aspects.

The radical response to these facts is to restrict our own consumption of goods and services, our own material standard of living, either in order to share more of our wealth with those in need, or in order to serve God better by using our time to work for justice and peace or by sharing the lot of the poor.

Well over 419,000 Americans die each year from causes attributable to smoking, and tobacco is responsible for more deaths in the United States than alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, violence, automobile crashes and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) combined!

For everyone presently alive to reach present U.S. levels of consumption would require four more planet Earths, even if there were the social and political will.

But to equate storytelling with theology and thereby to justify regurgitating one's own autobiography for public consumption is more often than not an ego trip.

Many people today are again willing to trade relentless consumption for a more intellectually and spiritually rich life.

All I have to do is listen to what your imams preach at the local mosque, of which more than 60 % in the US are islamistic, encouraging corporal punishment for adultery and alcohol consumption, calling all non-muslims in their own country here in the US and elsewhere immoral pigs.

After the necessities for survival are met, healthy relationships contribute much more to human happiness than does the increase of consumption of goods and services.

Most of the other arguments for free trade are more for popular consumption.

Do you agree that North Americans should make an effort to reduce their consumption of beef for the sake of a more efficient use of available grains for the hungry nations of the world?

Current efforts at energy conservation are inadequate; while the need for more appropriate patterns of individual and corporate energy consumption is clear, the statement also recognizes the necessity of avoiding unnecessary economic and social dislocations in the transition to energy efficiency (e.g., unemployment or increased costs due to lowered volume).

Harrington means by «socialization» the idea that the future is bringing, and will bring in geometrically increasing ratios, a deeper sense of increased human interdependence in a corporate environment, one marked by international demands for mutuality, by global communication and transportation, and by interpenetrating systems of production, distribution, and consumption, all of them interlocked and increasingly inclusive of more and more nations of the world.

Luther was writing Postils all through the summer, sample sermons on gospel passages, for parish priests and for more general consumption, and becoming more familiar with the Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible.

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A magazine article disputed this assertion by pointing out that despite consuming 385 million gallons of beer per year (more than 20 gallons for every man, woman, and child), Australia ranked a poor seventh in per - capita beer consumption, behind the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Britain, and Belgium.