Sentence examples for profligate consumption from inspiring English sources

This cheap oil encourages profligate consumption, including the purchase of gas-guzzling vehicles.

Many architects after the post-World War II building boom were content to erect emblematic civic and corporate icons that celebrated profligate consumption and omnivorous globalization.

When interpreting Barbie, artists tend to take one of two approaches: idealizing the doll or, more commonly, using the doll to critique ideas associated with it, from exaggerated femininity to profligate consumption.

While there is a fractious debate going on around the world about our debt-ridden culture and the need to live within our means, there is little serious attention directed to the ultimate debt we have incurred over the course of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions as a result of our profligate consumption patterns our debt to the earth's biosphere.

But Icelanders can be forgiven for wondering if they've really been any more reckless than many other countries — most obviously the U.S., which relies heavily on foreign capital to fund home buying and profligate consumption, and whose banking system is rife with reckless lending.

For most of the last decade, this tiny country ran on a high-octane mix of foreign investment — much of it related to Iceland's energy resources — borrowed money and profligate consumption, turning its 307,000 people into a miniature model of the American economy.

There is disappointingly little new on climate change, and plenty to indicate that there is no enthusiasm for challenging Britain's profligate carbon consumption.

www.lucha-libre.co.uk LB Over 250 years on from William Hogarth's grim depiction of profligate gin consumption, happy days are here again as London enjoys a gin renaissance with numerous small distilleries springing up all over town.

It also turns China into an international environmental villain, thanks to its billowing emissions of greenhouse gases.Chinese officials, all too aware of these problems, have long been pushing expensive measures to develop alternative forms of generation and cut back on profligate power consumption.

He is certainly correct about the recent shock of learning how close our profligate habits of consumption have brought us to the limits of the world's resources.

He promoted the idea of our stewardship of nature: "Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste".