Sentence examples for unsustainable consuming from inspiring English sources
Aside from people travelling to the event, the idea of creating a temporary city with power, toilets, waste, water, transport, is inherently unsustainable, consuming resources, producing masses of waste.
We're fishing and consuming unsustainable amounts of seafood using irresponsible practices.
It was becoming clear that urban populations were consuming increasingly unsustainable levels of natural resources.
U.S. Consumers Not Consuming.
The growth in the decade before the crisis was unsustainable — it was reliant on the bottom 80 percent consuming about 110 percent of their income.
"When we consider the amount of land, water and feed being used, and the greenhouse gases produced, the way we are consuming meat at the moment is unsustainable," says Shami Radia, one of four joint partners in Entovista, the cricket farm at Thringill.
However, this study shows that, whilst transactional contracting may be safe, in that it ensures that providers do provide the services they are contracted to provide, it is also hugely time consuming and expensive, and perhaps therefore unsustainable in the new NHS [ 20].
In short, we're consuming water, like food, at a rate that is completely unsustainable.
Many countries are "consuming beyond their means", the report notes: in other words, making unsustainable use of resources to power their GDP growth.Some countries had particularly unusual results: from 1990 to 2010 Qatar's per-capita GDP rose by 85%; but thanks to depletion of its natural resources, inclusive wealth fell by more than 50% (see chart 1).
David Leonhardt: Consuming.
