Quotes About Consumption

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

China has a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe.

When is population going to become an accepted part of the food debate? If it's fine to encourage people to think about halving their meat consumption, can we really not cope with a conversation about how many children we have?

The strong evidence is that we're running out of space. We're collectively affecting the world's climate. This is due to the still-growing human population and our increase in consumption.

Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. People spend when they're young.

Oil demand is going to continue to grow as population grows.

We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.

If all of your self worth and esteem is invested in how much you consume, how many likes you get, or other quantifiable measures, the desire to simply possess things trumps our ability or capability to make moral connections with people around us.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.

I can't see potato chips being popular where there's not land to grow potatoes in or where frying in lots of oil isn't easy or convenient.

I eat a lot. I probably eat more than anybody that I know. I'll go on set and get a plate of bacon, a bagel, an omelet, boiled eggs, fresh fruit, oatmeal, fresh juice, potatoes, basically anything that's there. I don't mean that I alternate between these things. I'll eat all of this for breakfast.

When people consume, they want more. Then they choose the best, and you suddenly get innovation coming in. Now combine that with desperation and people wanting to get a better life: you have a potent combination for innovation.

Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

Affluence creates poverty.

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.