News of climate strikes, the Amazon fires and protests in Hong Kong and Chile reached young people largely through social media. Policymakers should pay attention
Eighteenth-century Britain (tea)
Eighteenth-century Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)by Paul Langford
"The fearful problems arising from the Londoner's thirst for gin - and the less damaging but at the time equally criticized liking of the poorer sort for tea - suggest that at least there was no shortage of disposable income at that time "
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Little is being built in Japan’s stagnant economy, and day laborers and part-time workers are having difficulty finding jobs.
Local food (also regional food or food patriotism) or the local food movement is a "collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place"
Who eats most meat? Vegetarians should look away
THE world has a burgeoning appetite for meat. Fifty years ago global consumption was 70m tonnes. By 2007—the latest year for which comparable data are available—it had risen to 268m tonnes. In a similar vein, the amount of meat eaten by each person has leapt from around 22kg in 1961 to 40kg in 2007. Tastes have changed at the same time. Cow (beef and veal) was top of the menu in the early 1960s, accounting for 40% of meat consumption, but by 2007 its share had fallen to 23%. Pig is now the animal of choice, with around 99m tonnes consumed. Meanwhile advances in battery farming and health-related changes in Western diets have helped propel poultry from 12% to 31% of the global total. Although populous middle-income countries such as China are driving the worldwide demand for meat, it is mainly Western countries who still eat most per person. Luxembourgers, who top this chart, are second only to Argentinians in beef consumption. Austrians are the keenest pig-eaters, wolfing down 66kg every year—just more than Serbians, Spaniards and even neighbouring Germans. At the other end of the scale, cow-revering Indians eat only 2.6kg of meat each, the least of the 177 countries assessed. See the full data.
”The immediate priority for Japan was to pass proposed legislation to raise the consumption tax, but more needed to be done to address the country's longstanding challenges of high public debt, low growth and deflation, Mr Lipton added.
利普頓表示，日本當前第一要務是通過一個上調消費稅的立法提案，但除此之外還需要採取更多行動，解決這個國家長期存在的一些挑戰，包括巨額公共債務、低增長以及通貨緊縮。
Then, inspired by the spirit of capitalism consuming modern China, more than 50 employees borrowed from banks against their homes to buy the company, install new equipment and produce higher quality steel pipe, much of it for export. The newly privatized factory soon was proudly humming again.
consume
verb [T]
1 to use fuel, energy or time, especially in large amounts:
Our high living standards cause our present population to consume 25 percent of the world's oil.
2 FORMAL to eat or drink, especially a lot of something:
He consumes vast quantities of chips with every meal.
3 If a fire consumes something, it destroys it completely.
4 be consumed by/with sth to have so much of a feeling that it affects everything you do:
He was consumed with jealousy.
As a teenager, I was consumed by passion for the boy next door.
consumables
plural noun
goods, especially food, or services which people buy regularly because they are quickly used and need to be replaced quite often:
At this hospital we use up bandages, disposable gloves and other consumables at an alarming rate.
consumer
noun [C]
a person who buys goods or services for their own use:
The new telephone rates will affect all consumers including businesses.
consumer rights/advice
consumerism
noun [U]
1 the state of advanced industrial society in which a lot of goods are bought and sold
2 DISAPPROVING when too much attention is given to buying and owning things:
He disliked Christmas and its rampant (= extreme) consumerism.
consuming
adjective
describes an emotion that is very strong:
Running is a consuming passion with him.
consumption
noun [U]
1 the amount used or eaten:
As a nation, our consumption of junk food is horrifying.
We need to cut down on our fuel consumption by having fewer cars on the road.
See also consumption.
2 when someone uses, eats, or drinks something:
The meat was clearly unfit for human consumption (= not suitable for people to eat).
These products are not for national consumption, but for export.
3 when information, entertainment, etc. is intended for a particular group of people:
This memo is for internal consumption only.
The movie was not intended for public consumption.
disposable
adjectivedescribes an item that is intended to be thrown away after use:disposable nappies
a disposable camera
disposable
noun [C usually plural]
a disposable product, especially a disposable nappy:
paper/plastic/medical disposables
Do you use disposables or washable nappies?
disposable income noun [U]
the money which you can spend as you want and not the money which you spend on taxes, food and other basic needs
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