Japan consumes a lot of paper.

The brain is a bit of a hog when it comes to using glucose.

And they'll get a two child family without a stop in population growth.

That's what 410,000 cups looks like.

The first thing you need to know about tea in the 1700's is that it was really, really popular.

Australia and New Zealand.

Usually, consumers would take quantity over quality.

I told you. They'll go there.

Energy rating 0.95.

It has an amount of impact on the planet that's measurable.

He consumes an enormous amount of liquor.

And that tuna thinks it's going to Japan, but it's staying in place.

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Partly through this debt system, the effects of economic growth have been spectacular in GDP, damming of rivers, water use, fertiliser consumption, urban population, paper consumption, motor vehicles, communications and tourism.

In general, consumers prefer quantity to quality.

Agriculture consumes a great amount of water.

They could slow down by about 50 percent.

In 2000, we had six billion people on the planet.

That is another 25 million barrels a day.

Machinery uses a lot of electricity.

Alcohol consumption is increasing every year.

The per capita consumption of rice of Japanese people is about half of what it was fifty years ago.

It's not like no investment was going on for the last 20, 30 years. We had a lot of investment.

And on the cash flow statement you express that saying

We stopped drilling in ANWR, but we didn't actually reduce the amount of oil that we consumed.

The car consumes a lot of fuel.

This air conditioner consumes a lot of electricity.

Now which addiction is greater?

I've also added in this diagram now some pink lines that go down and to the right.

An analogue would be the growth of bacteria in a petri dish.

Our college uses far too much electricity.

A global crisis in agriculture.

Let's think a little bit about leverage.

But over the course of the last several decades, we were just borrowing other people's output.

They were consuming what they were consuming

I can live beyond, essentially, what my income would predict.

By restricting their demand, consumers can actually align their values with their spending, and drive capitalism and business to not just be about more, but be about better.

In fact, I looked to a technology that neither stores nor generates electricity, but instead consumes electricity, huge amounts of it.

Wood is a disappearing resource in much of Africa, and these stoves burn far less wood than the stoves currently in much use.

To solve the sliding tile 15 puzzle, an optimal agent that searches will usually require

And now all of a sudden, the banks dried up, liquidity is gone, people can't borrow money, and you have a demand shock.

So the things I want to go over are the ideas of savings, consumption, and investment.

A simple house adds value to society.

Only if you control and regulate it, you will get that aerodynamic efficiency.

Now, if you think about how our world got so accelerated, the usual suspects rear their heads.