As population growth and greater affluence increased the world's demand for calories, for instance, agricultural productivity grew, which in turn increased supply.
Growing affluence increased the eating of meat, leading to ever more crowded stockyards and poultry houses, with medieval sanitation; such conditions fostered disease, driving farmers to use antibiotics, thus promoting more resistance in strains of bacteria that all too readily adapted to people.
"Analyses of survey data have repeatedly shown that, once a society reaches a particular level of affluence, further increases in material wealth produce very limited changes in people's self-reported happiness".
The theory describes that nutrient overload in our modern society of affluence gradually increases the involvement of immune system pathways.
HONG KONG — Rapid economic growth, rising affluence and increased liberalization are leading to a flurry of new airline projects in the Asia-Pacific region.
As global population and affluence has increased, so has the use of various materials increased in volume, diversity and distance transported.
The auction world, too, has seen Asian spending power become a key driver of growth over the past decade as affluence has increased throughout the region, industry experts say.
Affluence and increased traffic noise are adding to the demand for fountains in Los Angeles.
In Australia, as affluence has increased and families have reduced in size, houses have only gotten bigger, many now endowed with open-plan kitchens, spacious ensuite bathrooms, and media rooms.
