Sentences with phrase «more consumption»

Low rates have enabled consumers to pay down debts, or refinance at lower, long - run rates, making room for more consumption in their monthly budgets.

It creates a hormone cascade when consumed that starts a positive feedback loop in the body to encourage more consumption.

Although you will, in theory, have to dispose of these items eventually, it's still better to use something that's already been created than to generate yet more consumption.

Cheap gas will mean more consumption by buildings, industry, and perhaps for transportation.

Lower prices = more consumption = more carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Higher temperatures also mean a more efficient degradation of biomass and therefore more consumption of oxygen,» says Professor Bange.

This choice means you're also giving up on more consumption in the future, and giving up the chance for freedom (or financial independence) while you're still young enough to enjoy it.

The real problem may be consumption, which, to date, begets ever more consumption.

I would have thought that all these clever new tools (I have a phone, a tablet, and a laptop) would cumulatively add more consumption, but by using them instead of a big TV all the time, I am in fact using much less.

Economists, including Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, have often referred to the concept of the «wealth effect,» saying that higher stock and home prices could eventually spur more consumption.

Then we can liberalize and free up more consumption power.

Liberals counter that during a recession you need more consumption, not investment; and you can afford to give significant benefits to practically everybody just by jacking up the tax rate on the richest five percent.

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.

The negative effects of lower oil prices hit the economy right away, and the various positives - more exports because of a stronger U.S. economy and a lower dollar, and more consumption spending as households spend less on fuel - will arrive only gradually, and are of uncertain size.

Nielsen reported that while many Australians eat seafood, there is an opportunity to encourage more consumption with food innovation that caters to consumers evolving needs and tastes.

Jean Daniel, spokeswoman for USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, said the WIC program was updated for the first time in 30 years after a study showed more consumption of leafy greens and other veggies was needed.

And since sugar lingers in a lot of fall favorites, adding even more consumption isn't in the cards for me this year.

You can not have it any way you want, you lower consumption and you increase pollution, less pollution gives more consumption and CO2 and either changes will affect drivability.

For example, more herbivorous bugs could mean more consumption pressure for Arctic plants, while the decline in detritivores could result in changes in decomposition and soil nutrient cycling.

After the easy efficiencies are found, further efficiency measures often require greater cost for less benefit; and while greater efficiency may reduce costs at first, it can have the effect of spurring yet more consumption.

TH: How do you respond to folks who might say that EVO is just encouraging more consumption, and that «green consumerism» is at best a green band - aid over the planet's real problems?

This sets off a spiral of increased cravings, more consumption of ever more potent drugs, behaviors that can lead to death.

«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.

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

This created the «network effect» — a process in which the value snowballs as more production attracts more consumption and more consumption leads to more production.

Efforts to place more controls on lending should ensure that the pivot to a more consumption - driven economy from a capital expenditure and export - driven economy will continue.

China's private equity market is maturing to a more consumption - driven model, with sector - specific funds growing in popularity, market participants say.

Over a period of weeks or months, I'd be willing to bet, consistently having those fruits and veggies and white milk, etc. show up on kids» lunch trays — by their own choosing, sneakily or not — would likely lead to more consumption of those items as familiarity set in and kids, hungry for their lunches, realized that eating the orange and the salad might be better than leaving the cafeteria only half - full.

«People's wants escalate as they tire of what they have and they want something else, which in turn leads to more consumption and more waste in landfills, more energy consumed and more carbon emitted into the atmosphere,» she said.

Some cars can have 10 % more consumption than test, some same, some less, some 20 % more, some 30-40-50 % more.

The ever - growing number of premier galleries underlines Hong Kong's offer as a leading arts hub, and as China shifts to a more consumption - led economy we are likely to see a further increase in the demand for art in the coming years.

Suppose that instead of chasing after more stuff, more jobs, more consumption, and more income, we aimed for enough stuff, enough jobs, enough consumption, and enough income.

As the nation's wealth has risen — approaching $ 40,000 per capita — the Taiwanese somehow managed to waste less and defy the notion put forth by economists Michael McDonough and Carl Riccadonna that economic growth leads to more consumption and, therefore, more waste.

«There's more people, there's more consumption.»

Both have more consumption - led demand exposure than coal that hedges their investment - led demand risk, and as a result both continued to grow at close to 2011 levels last year.

The Khazzoom - Brookes Postulate: As energy efficiency improves, people can afford more energy - intensive solutions, so improvements in energy efficiency can actually lead to more consumption, not less.

The idea that more consumption is more progress is falling apart, so (we have to ask ourselves:) is design part of this wheel of consumption or is it (something else)?

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The 12th Five ‐ Year Plan for the Development of National Economy and Society (2011 — 2015)-- The Five ‐ Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, or the Five ‐ Year Plan aims to create more socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth and boost domestic consumption that will begin to re ‐ orientate the Chinese economy away from heavy industry and resource ‐ intensive production towards a more consumption ‐ based and resource ‐ efficient economy.