Sentence examples for reduced consumerism from inspiring English sources

Not only would reduced consumerism and greater equality make us more ecologically sustainable, it would halve the prevalence of mental illness within a generation.

"Trying to get people to think of their stuff as not junk, but something of value that could be useful to other people -- then you get people thinking about maybe not buying things, maybe getting something repaired, reducing consumerism and, as a result, reducing their impact on the overall environment one item at a time".

Focus-group consumerism reduces public life to the managerial task of servicing wants.

Implementation of the plan will reduce waste and consumerism.

Why not use the inevitability of the end of growth to our advantage by planning to reduce both mindless consumerism and carbon emissions, while increasing equity and quality of life?" Others are not convinced that a low energy future is inevitable.

Street life in these places is reduced to a trance-world of consumerism, of conformity and atomisation in which nothing unpredictable or disconcerting happens, a world made safe for selling mountains of pointless junk to tranquillised shoppers.

Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students investigate the environmental impact of new products and present their findings at a summit meeting to explore ways to reduce the planetary costs of consumerism.

The failure of England in Australia - like the repeated failures of the football and rugby teams - is further reminder of our sporting culture of complacency, in which celebrity and consumerism conspire to reduce sustained achievement.

This requires the trust that the majority of people would voluntarily reduce their standard of living once the forces that induce consumerism are overcome.

This is questionable operationally because the global poor may prefer money to be spent on their own consumerism (for example, for food now), rather than reducing risks to lower levels.

Some New Agers advocate living in a simple and sustainable manner to reduce humanity's impact on the natural resources of Earth; and they shun consumerism.