David Suzuki

There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy.

Canadian Scientist

Walton Goggins

I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

American Actor

George Etherege

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

English Dramatist

Understand that 'consumptive' often appears in historical texts referring to tuberculosis.

Historical Illness

Used more in past medical discussions, now 'tuberculosis' is more common in modern usage.

Medical Context

Carries a grave connotation, referencing a serious and deadly historical disease.

Serious Tone

Usually refers to unsustainable use of resources that can lead to scarcity.

Resource Depletion

Implies a negative ecological impact caused by resource depletion or waste.

Environmental Impact

Used in economic contexts to discuss the effects of consumption on supply.

Economic Understandings

 but to love others, mostly through pictures that create empathy, catalyze and reinforce our relationships. Let's continue our journey down the torso. Amazon is our consumptive gut. The instinct of more is hardwired into us.

How Amazon, Apple,...

 The ancient Greeks knew its consumptive effects as phthisis; the Incans called it chaky oncay; and the English called it tuberculosis. Today, tuberculosis, or TB, is still one of the world’s biggest infectious killers,

Consumptive