Quotes About Consumption

The world uses more than 4 billion gallons every day. When you're using any product at that kind of volume, you can't simply stop overnight.

That's nearly 600 pounds for every person in the country. And we're not even the biggest consumers of the stuff—that would be China, which installed more concrete in the first 16 years of the 21st century than the United States did in the entire 20th century!

In Europe, industrialized parts of Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, more than 20 percent of food is simply thrown away, allowed to rot, or otherwise wasted. In the United States, it's 40 percent. That's bad for people who don't have enough to eat, bad for the economy, and bad for the climate. When wasted food rots, it produces enough methane to cause as much warming as 3.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year.

How much greenhouse gas is emitted by the things we do? Making things (cement, steel, plastic) 31% Plugging in (electricity) 27% Growing things (plants, animals) 19% Getting around (planes, trucks, cargo ships) 16% Keeping warm and cool (heating, cooling, refrigeration) 7%

How much power does it take? The world 5,000 gigawatts The United States 1,000 gigawatts Mid-size city 1 gigawatt Small town 1 megawatt Average American house 1 kilowatt

As the world eats more meat, it accelerates the deforestation in Latin America. More burgers anywhere mean fewer trees there.

New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we're Americans, and that means once we open the bag, there's no stopping us until we're licking stray bits of powdered cheese off the carpet. So stop trying to give us nutritional information based on a fraction of the package. It assumes a talent for two things that we're really not capable of: restraint and math.

It's a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really need and are really a bargain, like gas and postage stamps, but we willingly shell out outrageous amounts for unnecessary crap like gourmet coffee and soap to make your crotch smell good. Two dollars a gallon to go ten miles is too much, but five to the parking valet to go ten feet is okay.

We should stop worrying so much about the price of gasoline and start considering its cost . You really want to be patriotic? Don't change your car by putting a flag on it, change the car.

We convince ourselves that even our shameless waste, our unchecked consumption and our appalling ignorance of anyplace in the world except our own little corner must continue-- or they win ! No, when you become smarter and less gluttonous, you win. We all win!

Authors produce the books. Readers consume the books.  Everyone else is in the middle.  And therefore, very, very nervous. 

During Trump's first six months in the White House, few understood how much media he consumed. It was scary. Trump didn't show up for work until 11:00 in the morning. Many times he watched six to eight hours of television in a day. Think what your brain would be like if you did that? Bannon asked. Bannon claimed he used to say to Trump, "Cut the fucking thing off.

Always somewhere there is fire or smoke, insistent reminders of the greed consuming the world

When it came to Gideon, I was more than willing to be devoured.

My drink was wet and depressing. Each time I took another sip it tasted more and more like dead water

A consumption tax like the VAT is paid by everybody, including those who pay no income tax and those who are in the country illegally.

See, vodka, that's drinking. Beer—well, beer is just getting the inside of your mouth wet.

She did not know quite yet how she had come to rely, to feed upon this anger, her only appetite.

Startled people look up With sheeps' heads Then go on eating.

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be....

Studies showed that the way members of each party consumed their news reflected this reality. For instance, Republican voters were generally more willing to believe what they heard from conservative media outlets than Democratic voters were from liberal platforms.

The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

I didn't know that disappointment and grief could become all consuming. I couldn't comprehend how those feelings could cripple a person permanently and cast a shadow over an entire future.