And according to Dr Ralf Fuecks, the head of the Heinrich Boell foundation in Berlin, the transition has not just changed the energy supply, it has changed attitudes to consumption as well.
It's this sort of laissez-faire attitude to media consumption and activity that means there are grown adults with salaries and bills to pay who hire bouncey castles for their birthdays.
Another potential limitation of our study is the possibility that cross-sectional surveys that use self-reported smoking status may suffer from information bias related to the increasing denormalization of tobacco consumption and associated attitudes to such consumption over time.
We identified four main themes: there was consensus that detecting at-risk drinking is important but difficult to do, social and cultural attitudes to alcohol consumption affect willingness to ask questions about its use, the dynamics of patient-doctor interactions are important, and alcohol screening questionnaires lack practical utility.
He added that supplying extra water rather than introducing water meters in every home to change attitudes to water consumption would "feed a wasteful habit".
Drawing on empirical work (including a survey, interviews and participant observation) in rural Cumbria, UK we explore the specific socio-spatial nature of local attitudes to alcohol consumption and its regulation.
Changing consumer attitudes to apparel consumption, linked with low-cost production and sourcing of materials from overseas industrial markets has led to a culture of impulse buying in the fashion industry, where new styles of clothing are available to the average consumer every week.
However, considering the underlying differences between service user groups that present to antenatal care and primary care services, the primary healthcare nurses' attitudes to alcohol consumption might be more understandable.
In order to understand and improve the quality of screening and ABIs in antenatal care settings, we explored how midwives' skills, knowledge and attitudes to alcohol consumption in pregnancy influence their practice.
The real problem is that we live in a neurotic, miserable society with a deeply disturbed attitude to food, nurture and consumption, a society which teaches children, and particularly girls, that their growing bodies and normal desires are unacceptable and must be starved away.
