Consumption

Today the definition of the word consumption is commonly known as eating, drinking or ingesting something. But the definition that is not too commonly know is the using up of resources. This is due to the lack of education on the consumption of our natural resources. In Thomas L. Friedman’s “Our Carbon Copies (or, Too Many Americans)” and the written debate between Robert W. Kates and J. Anthony Cassils in “Is Limiting Consumption Rather Than Limiting population The Key To Sustainability”, they…

growing consumption of it, sexual and explicit content including pornography gains constantly more attention (Hald & Malamuth, 2008). Pornography itself can be defined as “effortless sexual arousal” (Böthe, Tóth-Király, Demetrovics, & Orosz, 2017), meaning that no other person and not even the mental effort to imagine something oneself are necessary anymore to get aroused. A lot of research about pornography consumption has been conducted and the findings are striking. Pornography consumption…

eat other animals to survive as a species? In order to create a more ethical, personal and environmentally sustainable future we must end, or at least lower, meat consumption. Australia, next to the US, has the highest rate of meat consumption with the population consuming 115 kilograms per person per year. This rate of meat consumption is seriously effecting the Australian environment, increasing our risk of disease and promoting the animal abuse that happens within the meat industry. These…

Lower Meat Consumption Humans need to consume less meat for health and environmental purposes. The author Laura Wellesley wrote an article that was published in 2016 entailing the importance of consuming less meat and the need for the government to establishing policies that discourage excessive consumption of meat. Wellesley argues that there is a rapid increase in the levels of meat consumption in the United States of America and across European countries. The level of meat consumption has…

Alcohol consumption is a process of consuming alcoholic beverages.As the consumption increased, it reflected three essential factors.Firstly the age factor, which means the majority of the group who purchasing wine is adolescents and young adults.More importantly, gender difference is playing an important role in affecting the alcohol consumption.Male tend to drink much more than female did.However, the most vital aspect among drinking motives is the psychological issue.Such as anxiety and…

claims on money and consumption, I think it is derived from estranged labor and the owning of private property. This also leads to the question of consumption and alienation today. When it comes to consumption today, there hasn’t been much change. Alienation however has seen some changes and Marx’s claim to why alienation happens still lingers to this day. To get to these claims we must start with Marx’s view on money, which I believe is the root of the alienation and consumption. Marx’s belief…

the population were evaluated to provide an understanding of the local social and economic context in which the fruit consumption took place. Likert scales were constructed to appraise the impression of respondents of harvested fruit on farm and purchased fruit as well as farmers’ impression about wild fruit, fruit consumption by certain categories of persons and fruit consumption by children. All variables were first synthesised using descriptive statistics. Graphs like histograms, cumulative…

Global capitalism and human consumption affects everything and everyone around the world. Global capitalism affects the way items are produced and consumed. Companies that produce items are mainly doing it for profit. They do not care if the way they are producing affects others if they are always making profit. When companies produced items necessary for people to live, the way the produce the items and the price of the items can be good or bad for the consumers. People around the world are…

this type of food may not always be the best option for the public. Poor health issues such as obesity, diabetes, and pathogenic diseases have been found to be caused by excessive consumption of fast food and its ingredients. Obesity The first and probably the most well-known health risk of excessive fast food consumption is obesity. Obesity is defined as “excessive amounts of adipose tissue” (Obesity Society, 2016).…

production. The industrial production system required diligence and efficiency of workers, whereas the owners were concerned about their earnings in order to display their accumulated wealth in public. This behavioral model refers to the conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure survived from past of the tribal stage till modern times.…