hyper-consumption

So I don't care that Bridesmaids features bridesmaids, nor that it is ultimately uncritical of the American nuptial hyper-consumption that, from a distance, looks like a disorder.

Bridesmaids: how a chick flick won over a feminist 2011

So I don't care that Bridesmaids features bridesmaids, nor that it is ultimately uncritical of the American nuptial hyper-consumption that, from a distance, looks like a disorder.

Bridesmaids: how a chick flick won over a feminist 2011

In their upcoming book, What's Mine is Yours, Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers argue, "[I] n the 20th century of hyper-consumption we were defined by credit, advertising, and what we owned, and how in the 21st century of Collaborative Consumption we will be defined by reputation, community, and by what we can access."

Micki Krimmel: Consumer or Citizen? 2010

We said that society should not be based on hyper-consumption.

The Man Who Changed the World: An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev 2010

We said that society should not be based on hyper-consumption.

Ginny Dougary: The Man Who Changed the World: An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev Ginny Dougary 2010

We said that society should not be based on hyper-consumption.

Ginny Dougary: The Man Who Changed the World: An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev 2010

Thyssen concurs in the general indictment of excessive overleveraging as a key contributor to the economic meltdown, but points out that "leveraging was increased to insane levels irrespective of whether it made economic sense" because leveraging was the only way for the United States to sustain its trade and its hyper-consumption and for Europe to support is expensive social system.

Benjamin R. Barber: Deleveraging Everything! A Conversation With Heinrich Thyssen 2009

We said that society should not be based on hyper-consumption.

Ginny Dougary: The Man Who Changed the World: An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev 2009

By advancing a sustainable economy - breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, hyper-consumption, and hyper-waste - we can found our future on relationships, experiences, connections, engagement - and the information, communications, clean technologies, and smart agriculture and manufacturing practices that advance these healthy foundations.

Bill Shireman: The Media's "Buy-Us" Bias - The Power of "Concentrated Attractors" in the Media and the Market 2009

We are regional sacrifice zones created to support our hyper-consumption society, and point sources for greenhouse gases but they are coming everyone's way.

Majora Carter: Making Cities Sustainable 2008