"intensive consumption" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to consuming or using something in a focused or excessive manner. Example: The modern lifestyle promotes intensive consumption, with people constantly buying new gadgets, clothes, and experiences.
The dependence of cities on intensive consumption of energy from fossil fuels is a major cause of climate disruption, and there is increasing interest in the potential for city governments to facilitate a transition to sustainable energy.
In general, our results suggest that Ladle Furnace slag can be used as a raw material in the manufacture of Portland cement to reduce the intensive consumption of natural raw materials, energy and CO2 emissions by the cement industry.
However, the prediction implies intensive consumption of energy and reagents, and must therefore be modified by restricting the value of TOC decay to a lower value and that of pH to a higher one.
The new sustainable retail models advocate less material intensive consumption by increasing product longevity, and many of the models encourage consumers to focus on services instead of tangible products.
Such implications include the potential of CCS to sustain the global dependence on fossil fuels, disincentivize renewable energy development, and dissuade political measures to change energy intensive consumption patterns.
The authors acknowledged their findings do not demonstrate a cause-and-effect relationship between intensive consumption of media coverage of a trauma and PTSD.
At the same time, microgrid architectures are progressively being developed, proving to be suitable for supplying energy to continuous and intensive consumptions, such as manufacturing processes.
This suggests that a transformation of Chinese lifestyles away from the current trajectory of carbon-intensive consumption patterns requires policy interventions to improve living standards and encourage sustainable consumption.
Does the world need a bigger pie (more productive technologies) or fewer forks (slower population growth through voluntary contraception) or better manners (fewer inequities, less violence and corruption, freer trade and mobility, more rule of law, less material-intensive consumption)?
In short, the consumer marketplace provides a key means through which good motherhood is defined and realized, through time-consuming, expensive, and knowledge-intensive consumption practices.
Thus, as household income increases, lifestyles likely shift to less GHG-intensive consumption, but more intensive on the use of metal resources.
