Sentence examples for consumerism consumption from inspiring English sources

From the point of view of ethical consumerism, consumption is a political act that sanctions the values embodied in a product's manufacture.

You can't avoid consumerism and consumption.

He praised Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment, a sweeping, nearly 200-page document that calls for leaders to phase out dependence on fossil fuels and criticises consumerism and consumption that propagates global warming.

Held each fall, it is a kind of domestic version of study abroad that Baylor Johnson, the program's director, said aims to place students in an unfamiliar environment, and give them a break from what he called rampant consumerism and consumption of ecological resources.

It allows for consumerism without consumption".

American war efforts, which invariably take place in distant lands, are not supposed to interfere with business as usual in the "homeland," which, of course, means consumerism and consumption.

The period from Black Friday to Christmas is the time of year when most of the western world treads the fine line between needs and wants, consumption and consumerism.

It may be that Merkel finds that Muslims are not so easily buying into the decadence of consumption and consumerism that are representative of a culture grounded in capitalist principles more than Christian ones.

As Jones suggested, to call out the Kardashians for something like their emphasis on "consumption and consumerism" is hypocritical unless we acknowledge that these qualities are born from our broader culture.

You know that's OK because the film is all about over-consumption and consumerism.

As early as in the 1990s, researchers found the tendency of apparel consumers to exhibit socially responsible consumption and environmental consumerism (e.g., Dickson and Littrell 1996; Kim and Damhorst 1998).