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Consumption Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our…
- We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as…
- The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing…
- the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
- Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal…
More Consumption Quotes
- Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and… — Neal Barnard
- When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits. — Gary Bauer
- Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of… — Joseph Beuys
- All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will… — David R. Brower
- You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky
- I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration… — Mahatma Gandhi
- Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. — Raoul Vaneigem
- "Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see… — John Hickenlooper