Sentence examples for unchecked consumption from inspiring English sources

At one point, contemplating a future of unchecked consumption and political paralysis, he sums it all up in blunt layman's terms: "We're screwed".

Unchecked consumption is also the subject of a 2012 video in which the artist herself appears as a kind of Afro-Caribbean priestess seated under a large tree and ritualistically gorging on chocolate cake, as if in the grip of unappeasable hunger.

In light of an impending energy crisis, a financial system that benefits few at the expense of many, and environmental degradation caused by unchecked, unnecessary consumption, it's clear something has to change.

Indeed, the International Energy Agency report that predicts the United States' rise to leading oil exporter also includes a warning that unchecked energy consumption will have dire consequences for the planet's climate.

The report warns that unchecked Chinese meat consumption will also degrade its arable land and worsen the country's problems with obesity and diabetes.

Like the original "Wall Street," with its pro-labor overtones, it also served as something of a liberal manifesto against the evils of unchecked capitalism and consumption.

But even if environmentalists of the 1970s were wrong about oil depletion, they were right that unchecked growth in petroleum consumption could push planetary boundaries past dangerous thresholds.

Approximately 30percentt of people who regularly consume large amounts of alcohol have a significantly increased risk for developing ALD (Lucey et al. 2009; O'Shea et al. 2010), which becomes chronic and progressively worse if alcohol consumption continues unchecked (Gao et al. 2011).

But our reckless consumption of throwaway goods goes unchecked, even amid talk of the renewal of thrift inspired by the economic crisis.

A BACKWARD GLANCE WASHINGTON -- At a press conference Monday, U.S. Retro Secretary Anson Williams issued a strongly worded warning of an imminent "national retro crisis," cautioning that "if current levels of U.S. retro consumption are allowed to continue unchecked, we may run entirely out of past by as soon as 2005".

But consumption, he warns, must not go unchecked: if we don't cultivate "deeper and long-lasting connection to fewer things," the planet will continue to suffer from the amount of waste we produce.