Literature is a waste of nature, its existence contingent upon the consumption of natural materials - parchment from sheepskin, paper from rag or wood-pulp.
Notions of individualised, romantic modes of consumption of pristine nature may well be inadequate in other contexts.
Themes emerge: aggression, conglomeration, consumption as elements of nature.
The marginal gains from social income insurance programs are captured by the gap in the marginal utility of consumption across states of nature.
The progress in knowledge and material well-being may not be a bad thing in itself, where the consumption and control of nature is a necessary part of human life.
Characterizing the political economic cycles of production and consumption as one of "Nature's beautiful adaptations," he announced that human happiness must "necessarily continue to increase because the main conditions on which life and health depend have experienced, during the whole of the present century, an expansion and improvement, on which no former age presents a parallel".
The global 'water crisis' involves a widespread reassessment of all aspects of urban water provision, from the financing and maintenance of public infrastructure, the techniques of supply, to levels of consumer demand and consumption, and dominant imaginaries of nature.
It's time to balance our consumption with the needs of nature, and to protect the only planet that is our home".
To my mind, though, what ultimately differentiates digital technologies from fashion and other forms of consumption is the nature of the promise being sold – and of the emotional obsolescence being rammed down purchasers' throats.
The existing economic literature strongly suggests that the households' capacity in poor countries to smooth consumption across time and states of nature is limited.
