But since 2008, though credit-card debt and cash-out refinancing have plummeted, consumption has remained stable.A final theory invoked good luck: the world had endured fewer shocks since the early 1980s.
In the Netherlands, a slowdown in the rate of property appreciation from 20% a year in 2000 to zero in 2003 sent consumption plummeting and the economy into recession.
Wine consumption is plummeting.
Coffee consumption plummeted.
The most surprising thing about the nineteenth-century temperance movement is that it seems to have worked: in the course of the century, hard-liquor consumption plummeted.
In part because it has been cooler, water consumption plummeted compared with last July, from 1.2 billion gallons a day to less than 1.1 billion.
Veal consumption plummeted in the '80s when confinement turned people off, and as a result crates are set to be phased out by 2017, producers say.
Though anger, shame, and fear can be productive_,_ fuelling social pressure that ultimately drives energy conservation, smart meters might also give rise to positive emotions, such as hope and pride at seeing energy consumption plummet.
Though anger, shame, and fear can be productive, fuelling social pressure that ultimately drives energy conservation, smart meters might also give rise to positive emotions, such as hope and pride at seeing energy consumption plummet.
As a result of growing awareness about the health risks associated with eggs' high cholesterol levels, for instance, U.S. per capita egg consumption plummeted 37percentt from 1950 to 1990.
