But the more Americans obey these orders, the worse things look for China in the short run, since American overconsumption is exactly what has kept those Chinese factories a-hum.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Way Forward] Reference

Imagine what the totals are for the Western world combined: Scary and revealing stuff that makes the word "overconsumption" seem like a gross understatement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak Food: Blaming the Victims] Reference

• Do you agree that "overconsumption" is now a dirty word?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketing Profs Daily Fix] Reference

Agreed that in today's economy, "overconsumption" and "excess" are now dirty words, for a number of reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketing Profs Daily Fix] Reference

In dismissing the idea of overconsumption they say: “But the overall level of consumption is not the source of the problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it] Reference

Finally we die, many of us martyrs to overconsumption of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

We're destroying the environment with all of our overconsumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2009] Reference

Honey and maple sugar are good foods, but overconsumption is harmful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

There's a growing realization that there's substantial overconsumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Jaffe: Which Side Are Docs On?] Reference

Some in the credit industry have blamed bankruptcies on overconsumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going For Broke] Reference

It would be desirable, but infeasible, to tax just overconsumption of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fat New World] Reference

Most Americans are trapped in a vicious cycle of overwork and overconsumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Therese Borchard: The Disease of A-Thousand-Things-To-Do] Reference

I live in America, the home of overconsumption and bad environmental stewardship.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Not to Do For Earth Day] Reference

Now an unusual group has launched a campaign to protest overconsumption in this country.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2004] Reference

Shopping is an emotional thing, and overconsumption is a kind of social, political problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Consuming Life] Reference

And be sure not to skip meals during these weeks as this will also encourage overconsumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Reames: Tips On Avoiding The Holiday Weight Gain] Reference

You know, that overconsumption is in some sense the mother of all our environmental problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2004] Reference

Legislators created the system in the wake of Prohibition, partly to discourage overconsumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wine Lovers See Red Over] Reference

An equitable and humane solution to overpopulation and overconsumption may actually be possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Problem Is Simple: Too Many People, Too Much Stuff] Reference

Make it an emblem of overconsumption by mounting it a la taxidermy on the wall -- spending overkill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Uses For Unwanted Holiday Gifts] Reference

Metropolitan Council will have to pay more than R2,08 million in punative tariffs for overconsumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The price increases we are seeing are the result, in large measure of our own wasteful overconsumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary On Track To Raise $10 Million Since Polls Closed Yesterday] Reference

The solution to the climate crisis requires that we replace that engine -- consumption without overconsumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bruno Giussani: TED 2008 / Day 4 : Al Gore: Let's Be The Generation That 1000 Years From Now Orchestras And Poets And Singers Will Celebrate] Reference

"The U.S. economy should move away from overconsumption based on excessive borrowing, and savings should grow.".    From Wordnik.com.  [PBOC Official Says Yuan Reform Won't Close U.S. Trade Gap] Reference

How America regains creditor status I cannot see, not with overconsumption, low expectations, and zero planning.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain's Lying Has Gone Too Far, According To ... Karl Rove!] Reference

Right now, we're seeing concerns about overconsumption in developing countries: obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&A: Looking Into The Future] Reference

The inevitable upshot of such grotesque disequilibrium is overconsumption on one side and underconsumption on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [PREFIGUREMENTS OF FRIENDLY FASCISM] Reference

Why should the South control its population if the resources saved thereby are merely gobbled up by Northern overconsumption?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3] Reference

And since the U.S. needs foreigners to subsidize American overconsumption and the overvalued dollar, that's a bad place to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ian Welsh: Why Japan Is Eating America's Lunch On Broadband] Reference

As 1.2 billion people start spending, the potential for overconsumption in our already resource-drained world could be devastating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craig and Marc Kielburger: Emerging middle class throws wrench in Copenhagen] Reference

In any case, the real problem is excess, so one option would be a tax on the overconsumption of food — that is, a tax on obese people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat of the Land] Reference

But can an industry synonymous with frippery, individualism, and overconsumption evolve to encompass ethics, collectivism, and restraint?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jasmin Malik Chua: 5 Ways Fashion Can Save the World: Thoughts From COP15 Fashion Summit] Reference

"Employment-based insurance hides much of the true cost of health care to consumers," Tanner says, "thereby encouraging overconsumption.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cato Institute's Daffy Health Care Ideas] Reference

If we only give nature a chance, and are perfectly frank and honest with ourselves, she will guard us against the overconsumption of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

The issue was and still is overconsumption i.e. levels of consumption supported only by increase in debt levels and not by future earnings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward Harrison: The recession is over but the depression has just begun] Reference

Imperatives for environmental sustainability: Decrease overconsumption and stabilize population (87-99) in: Nicholas Polunin and Mohammad Nazim (eds.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it] Reference