Globalize date January 2012 Update date September 2010 China has greatly increased consumption in the past year Image Energy per capita.png thumb 300px World energy resources and consumption Energy consumption per capita per country in 2001 Image CO2 per capita per country.png thumb 300px CO sub 2 sub emission per capita per year per country pre 2006 Over consumption is a situation where resource use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem . A prolonged pattern of overconsumption leads to inevitable environmental degradation and the eventual loss of resource bases. Generally the discussion of overconsumption parallels that of overpopulation that is the more people, the more Consumption economics consumption of raw materials to sustain their lives. Currently, the developed nations of the world consume at a rate of 32, while the rest of the developing worlds 5.5 billion people consume at a rate closer to 1. ref name NYTimes Diamond Diamond, Jared 2008 January 2 . http www.nytimes.com 2008 01 02 opinion 02diamond.html What s Your Consumption Factor? The New York Times ref The theory was coined to augment the discussion of overpopulation , which reflects issues of Carrying capacity Humans carrying capacity without taking into account per capita consumption, by which developing nations are evaluated to consume more than their land can support. Green parties and the ecology movement often argue that consumption per person, or ecological footprint , is typically lower in poor than in rich nations. Effects A fundamental effect of over consumption is a reduction in the planet s Carrying capacity Humans carrying capacity . Excessive unsustainable consumption will exceed the long term carrying capacity of its environment Overshoot ecology ecological overshoot and subsequent resource depletion , environmental degradation and reduced ecological health . The scale of modern life s over consumption has enabled an overclass to exist, displaying affluenza and obesity ... more details
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This is a partial list of notable portmanteau s or blend s words formed by combining two other words, in the English language. General affluenza , from affluence and influenza anacronym , from anachronism and acronym anecdata , from anecdote and data Amerind peoples , from American and indigenous peoples automobilia , from automobile and memorabilia avionics , from aviation and electronics backronym , from backwards and acronym banjitar , a combination musical instrument of a banjo and a guitar bankster , from banker and gangster beurgeois , from beur and bourgeois blaccent , from black and accent used of non blacks who try to sound black blaxploitation , from black and exploitation bleen , from blue and green coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate Goodman s paradox Bodacious disambiguation bodacious , from bold and audacious was made popular during the 80 s. Bootylicious , from booty and delicious a title of a Destiny s Child song breathalyzer , from breath and analyzer bromance , from brother and romance brostache , from brother and mustache an Application software app created by GEICO for a commercial brunch , from breakfast and lunch camcorder , from camera and recorder carjack , from car and hijack celesbian , from celebrity and lesbian chuggers , from charity and muggers Chunnel , from English Channel Channel and tunnel. chav tastic, from chav and fantastic meaning, having many characteristics of a chav , rather than a fantastic chav Chinglish , English and Chinese mixed up to humorous effect cf. Spanglish, Franglais chortle , from chuckle and snort coined by Lewis Carroll clopen disambiguation clopen , from closed and open cocacolonization , from Coca Cola and colonization cremains , from cremate and remains cryptex , from cryptology and codex cyberdelic , from cybernetics and psychedelic cyberpunk , from cybernetics and punk cyborg , from cybernetic and organism Diamat , from Dialectical Materialism digerati , from digital and literati digipeater , from digi ... more details
04 01 season 13 number 1 ref Jacinta Stapleton , ref name episode13.5 cite episode title Affluenza series ... list Blue Heelers EpisodeNumber 14 EpisodeNumber2 504 Title Affluenza AltTitle DirectedBy Chris Ashead ... more details
. aerosols solid or liquid particles suspended within the atmosphere. affluenza as defined in the book of the same name ref Hamilton, C. & Denniss, R. 2005 . Affluenza when too much is never enough ... from free and vegan . cf. affluenza, froogle. freon DuPont s trade name for its odourless, colorless ... who have made a resolution to only buy essentials for a particular period of time cf. freegan, affluenza ... more details
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