And that's just the visible impact – there are also the carbon emissions of transporting stage infrastructure, performers, crew and of course fans to the festival site, not to mention the ravenous energy consumption of gigantic light and sound systems often powered by dirty diesel generators.
But the image she conjured of a ravenous engine of consumption suggested something more than mere media concentration.
Consumption ("ravenous, insatiable") is a kind of addiction; those who question whether the environment is in terminal crisis are addicts in denial.
This middle class, reminiscent of America's in the roaring 20's and postwar 50's, is a ravenous source of global consumption and investment in financial products such as stocks, bonds, alternative finance, and, yes, bitcoin.
It's about daily consumption; the democratic appetite, ravenous for meat, sweets, life on the street, and getting more of everything, cheap.
But even the underwriters who priced shares of Broadcast.com for public consumption failed to anticipate the ravenous investor appetite for them.
(Indeed, with montages of advertisements for glistening Rolex watches and shiny Bentley convertibles, the film critiques the ravenous American consumer culture that has pushed consumption to a level that represents nearly seventy per cent of G.D.P., in addition to the U.S. government, which has incurred more debt relative to the size of the economy than it has since the Second World War).
Fueled by technology, a gradual coarsening of social conventions, and an ever more ravenous media, even the most intimate secrets held at the highest levels are now fair game for public consumption.
The sin in all this greedy consumption, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, is not in the food, the cars or the clothes, but in the ravenous yearning for more, more and more.
