Sentences with phrase «material affluence»

Burke, R., Koyuncu, M., Fiksenbaum, L., et al. (2009) Time affluence, material affluence and well - being among Turkish managers.

CO2 emissions are the product of «population» (number of people or consumers) times «material affluence» (GDP per person or per capita GDP) times «carbon intensity of the economy» (tons of CO2 emitted per GPD generated).

Despite it's disastrous track - record of macro-economic management, epitomised by the Lawson boom in the late 1980s and George Osbourne's ill - timed retrenchment since 2010, the Conservatives have consistently positioned themselves as the party of fiscal discipline and economic competence, as well as the party of entrepreneurship and material affluence.

Increasingly, we seek to be an alternative in a society that is often destructive of human relationships and humane values, a society afflicted by a chronic low - grade nihilism that is masked but not healed by material affluence.

By downsizing their expectations of material affluence, people are able to discover and invest in what really matters to them, whether that is family, relationships, community involvement, environmental responsibility or a new, more satisfying kind of work.

The good society is regarded as one of material affluence, where a wide range of desires are powerfully stimulated and abundantly satisfied.

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What Lasch described in 1972 as «the familiar materials of popular discontent, quietly persisting through three decades of «affluence,»» are once again on the rise: «distrust of officials and official pronouncements; cynicism about the good faith of those in positions of great power; resentment of the rich; a conviction that most things in life are «fixed.

Familiar examples of such action would include the advocacy of social services aimed at the redistribution of material well - being so that there would be some agreed - upon level of affluence for all, including refusal to live above this parity level, unilateral disarmament, pacifism, nonviolent refusal to abide by existing laws that perpetuate injustice with the willingness to suffer the penalties that existing laws demand.

It takes for granted the culture of celebrity and affluence and overlooks the question of whether it is morally possible to live with integrity at any level of material comfort in our industrialized society.

We can stop the endless growth of material and carbon - intensive affluence by transitioning to a steady - state economy, as advocated by Herman Daly for decades.

And yet, to this day, putting limits on human development continues to appeal to those who have been wealthy for so long that they have forgotten the material foundation of their affluence and are delusional about their ability to live without it.