Sentences with phrase «world of plenty»

And so the rain forest cultures, with their fragile pluralism born of a lush world of plenty, deliquesce into the raw sewage of the slums of Rio and Lagos and Jakarta.

This is triage in a world of plenty.

The ability to choose can quickly lead us to ingratitude: in a world of plenty we become spiritual picky eaters, snubbing our nose at fare which the starving would grab at if they could.

With these kinds of numbers, it is hard to believe we live in a world of plenty and we actually produce enough to feed every hungry person on earth.

But it is clear that the range of temptations is greater in a world of plenty - just think for a moment about the food and drink being offered for sale all around us, all of the time.

We were forged in adversity but live in a world of plenty.

Today, however, we live in a world of plenty, surrounded by processed foods that are typically loaded with sugar.

I recently returned to the world of Plenty of Fish.

Almost thirty years ago, at exactly the age Anna is now, I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, exploring the question: Why hunger in a world of plenty?

These images remind me that we are spoiled rotten in our world of plenty.