Sentences with phrase «less 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.

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

«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.»

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This is particularly important for congregations composed mostly of those who are relatively powerful in a society — more specifically, in our society, of white affluent North Americans — and who therefore in their daily dealings are not forced to listen to or to learn from those who are less fortunate.

The clean industries of the informational society have added to the wealth of the South and the West, drawing in the educated and the affluent, while leaving behind the less adaptable industrial workers.

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

But juxtaposing the 100 - percent scenarios that promise a permanent high - energy economy with critiques showing such projects to be futile should lead us to a different vision altogether: that, at least in affluent countries, it would be better simply to transform society so that it operates on far less end - use energy while assuring sufficiency for all.