Sentences with phrase «world affluence»

Fair trade certified coffee is the kind of phrase that sounds good on a Whole Foods shelf, the type of marketing that merges first world affluence with third world resource.

Why are we polarized into two nations, one living in First World affluence, the other in Third World misery, again unlike any other advanced nation?

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Now ubiquitous access to the next generation's tools of commerce will bring even greater affluence and opportunity to these fast - growing parts of the world.

This vast region — practically the entire southern hemisphere — gained its political independence and set out in pursuit of «development»: the industrialization, technology and affluence of the First and Second worlds.

The affluence of the industrialized world, in which Bono is part of the wealthiest class, is a scandal to theological and moral understandings of global justice.

Three times in national elections we voted for a simulacrum of the «American Century,» for a candidate who projected a sense of American superiority in the world and ethically untroubled affluence at home, willingly suspending disbelief in the possibility of such a restoration.

They are guardians of the world of commerce, where everything is valued only as it might be bought or sold, where all giving and receiving are governed by the satanic law that each must try to take more than he gives, where everything is plunged into the abysmal shadow of that insatiable Typhon called America — that gaslit desert of barbarism, with its infantile, gigantic, exuberant vulgarity, its monstrously guileless delight in affluence, its omnivorous vacuity...» He ceased speaking suddenly, looking all at once abashed.

But in a world of tightening competition, organizing American society around an ever more intense competition for affluence — more Hobbesian than Lockean — is not the only institutional possibility.

We gather to see if the world of vocation and tradition, of birth and bread, of shepherds and forgiveness can be mediated to us in the midst of our disproportionate affluence and fear.

The church was being given a taste of how the world works — its lopsidedness, its patchy rhythm of muchness and emptiness, of affluence and desolation.

If by some way humanity were able to reduce the environmental impact of all its technologies by 10 per cent and there were no increase in per - person affluence, world population growth would return the collective impact of humans to the previous level in about five years.

The evangelical - fundamentalist - Pentecostal subcultures have expanded significantly since 1962, and their meaning - systems have been drastically transformed while these churches embrace the world of advertising and celebrities, sex manuals and affluence, theological adjustment and new styles of witness.

We live in a country of enormous affluence in a world in which 1 in 6 people is chronically malnourished and in which 50,000 people die every day of poverty related causes.

It's a strange thing in some ways that many of us think of diabetes as what they used to call a disease of affluence, that it was a disease you'd find a lot in the richer, in [the] developed world.

As the world's population grows in number and affluence, the demands for both resources are increasing faster than ever.

As we have seen with other diseases of affluence, when people migrate from areas of the world where disease incidence is low to areas of the world where disease incidence is high, they quickly adopt the high incidence rates as they change their diet and lifestyle.

Affluence is a network built around introducing you to like - minded individuals all around the world.

I AM THE ONE AND UNIQUE my spiritual power is unbound whole world is mine indigence into affluence...

Remember, taming one of the breed from the list of the expensive dog in the world will uphold you affluence and successful life and will segregate you from the mass.

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Children of Zodiarcs A story - driven, tactical RPG set in the fantasy realm of Lumus — a world divided by affluence and poverty.

Afterwork looks at Hong Kong's largest minority group, and tells their stories — crucial narratives that need to be told alongside the growing affluence of Hong Kong in the past decades, and on the backdrop of the different historical waves of labour migration in Hong Kong and the world.

Taking up concepts such as affluence, corruption and aggression, his works are undertones of what he perceives to be a «mad world».

In the art world this tangle is further convoluted by the relishing of trade and an inherent affluence, elitism and circuitous pandering that can compromise anyone's well - intentioned we / they stirrings.

Surrounding the entire room, a giant curtain with a diaphanous print featuring an expanding tumour is placed as a cosmic poetry that frames this uncomfortable romance between wealth and waste, western affluence and third world poverty.

The stories of migrant workers in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and elsewhere are crucial narratives that need to be told alongside the growing affluence of many of these societies in the past decades, together with the stories of struggle of what is considered the «local» working class and of other historically disadvantaged groups, and on the backdrop of the different historical waves of migration that have shaped so much of our world.

The physical and spatial experience of a city defines a language spoken around the world — a language of skyscrapers, traffic, human density, technology, affluence, poverty, and noise.

The imagery, culled from pornography, mail order catalogues, society pages, interior design magazines and the cesspools of the world wide web creates a cosmology of affluence and power, where human beings function largely as decorative elements.

The problem as I see it is that affluence requires energy and there ain't enough energy in the world to make everyone affluent (not to mention the multiple problems you and I previously touched on with burning copious quantities of fossil fuels).

As Tom Athanasiou noted a decade ago, «In a world torn between affluence and poverty, the crackpot realists tell the poor, who must live from day to day, that all will be well in the long run.

The current debate will soon be rendered moot as global energy supplies enter a new phase of terminal decline and take the industrialized worlds grossly disproportionate levels of affluence down with them.

The use of fossil fuels has provided that affluence for the developed world.

By this I mean that a self growing system, a bit like the economy, grew, where assistant professors became professors and needed graduate students, affluence allowed more students to go to graduate school instead of facing the real world, even though academy was not a dedication but just work, in a growing spiral.

A cornerstone of modern environmentalism is the claim that affluence and technology are the problem — that they actually increase environmental degradation and deplete the world's natural resources.

In face of impending environmental and social catastrophe, says Steffen, «all over the world, groups of people with graduate degrees, affluence, decades of work experience, varieties of advanced training and technological capacities beyond the imagining of our great - grandparents are coming together, looking into the face of apocalypse... and deciding to start a seed exchange or a kids clothing swap.»

The combination of population growth, rising affluence, and the conversion of one third of the U.S. grain harvest into ethanol to fuel cars is expanding the world demand for grain by a record 43 million tons per year, double the annual growth of a decade ago.