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It consumes an equal amount of resources regardless of whether it is paid for by debt or by taxation.
So hotter environments should support lower population densities, as each individual consumes resources more quickly, leaving less to go round.
A kindred ambivalence marks Kusama's "Food Obsession" sculptures, inspired, she claimed, by the image of all the food a person consumes in a lifetime passing by on a conveyor belt.
A Web site is basically an electronic collection plate, which consumes few of a candidate's resources.
It is not just technophobes who wonder whether a society that consumes 90% of the world's supply of methylphenidate (Ritalin), where the most profitable class of drugs is antidepressants, and where cosmetic surgeons perform liposuction on prime-time television is a society that has somehow lost its way.