Sentences with phrase «whose lives of luxury»

They are like the decadent denizens of Capitol City — the 1 %, if you will — whose lives of luxury and indolence are built on the suffering of everyone else.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Goodbye World (Unrated) Apocalyptic dramedy about a couple (Adrian Grenier and Kerry Bishe) raising a daughter (Mckenna Grace) in the lap of luxury whose life is upended when friends descend on their idyllic oasis after a computer virus triggers the collapse of civilization.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 24 City (Unrated) Modernization mockumentary, set in Sichuan Province, shot from the diverse perspectives of nine interviewees representing three generations of Chinese whose lives are affected in different ways by the demolition of a military factory in Chengdu to make way for a complex of luxury apartments.

Capitalism and its promise of a better life is explored through paintings on luxury fabrics whose patterns acquire a neo-classical painterly quality; Orientialism and a subtle critique of European values are explored in the films of his roadtrip to Pakistan and Afghanistan with shocking neutrality; and conceptual art is mocked in Potato House (1967) and paintings of absurd mathematical equations, while the series of self - portraits — Polke as astronaut, Polke as drug — confront the contemporary individual in the mire of history.

It is very easy for those of us who live in centrally heated luxury with all mods cons to look at the world through the distorted lens of privilege and to forget that the vast majority of human beings that have ever uttered a breath have lived short brutal wretched lives and there are far too many on the planet today whose prospects are little better.