insatiable lust
Explanation:
If you don't like "energy lust" (I don't, but it was my first idea, along the lines of wanderlust), maybe "insatiable appetite for energy" will earn you a few more cents!
Reece's up-close assessment of a rapacious coal industry is a searing indictment of how a country's energy lust is ravaging the hills and hollows of ...
www.amazon.com/Lost-Mountain-Wilderness-Devastation-ofAppal...
Our energy lust appears to be insatiable. FatFreddy, solar panels aren't very energy efficient, but it's not true that they cost energy then they produce. ...
www.hipforums.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-181147.html
Climate Change and our insatiable appetite for energy. Climate Change: Arctic meltdown 1979 - 2003. Summer ice coverage of Arctic Polar Region ...
www2.env.uea.ac.uk/cred/park_lane_2.ppt
has ever commanded a remote control knows the unavoidable truth about this nation: Rolling blackouts or not, we have an insatiable appetite for energy. ...
www.mindfully.org/Energy/Energy-Use-Per-Person11feb01.htm
Our world has an insatiable appetite for energy. Demand is driven by population growth, economic growth and technological developments. ...
www.energy-choices.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi...
to satisfy completely our seemingly insatiable appetite for energy at low cost. But now is not the time to retreat into wishful thinking.’ ...
energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=226356&Month=9...
How can India's galloping economic growth and insatiable appetite for energy be balanced with environmental security? ...
www.infochangeindia.org/agenda.jsp
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ATTENTION, CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
Of course bulimia is the same thing in any country, but the cultural connotations are different. Maybe because we Brits drink vast quantities of beer and bring it all up again at some stage, we are more "comfortable" with the idea of vomiting than the French, and this is reflected in our acception of "bulimia" where we put at least equal stress on the vomiting. The French, on the contrary, seem to put the vomiting part in second place. As a result, to the French mind "boulimie" means "compulsive overeating" well before it means the associated vomiting. Some examples, drawn pretty randomly, I feel:
Boulimie. besoin d'absorber une grande quantété d'aliments. Bradyzoïte. forme végétative d'un Apicomplexa ...
arachosia.univ-lille2.fr/labos/parasito/Internat/courspar/glossai.html
Boulimie: La boulimie est un trouble de l'alimentation caractérisé par des accès d'ingestion ...
www.futura-sciences.com/comprendre/g/lettre-B_8.php
Boulimie : littéralement "faim de bœuf ", faim excessive, ...
www.nutri-site.com/dossiers/glossaire.htm
Boulimie: Trouble associé à unproblème psychologique et caractérisé par l'ingestionde quantités anormalement élevées de nourriture, suiviede tentatives de se faire vomir http://www.cegepat.qc.ca/teducphys/glossaire.html
Bulimia nervosa: Eating disorder with binging (overeating) and purging (vomiting). ...
www.wrongdiagnosis.com/e/eating_disorders/glossary.htm
Bulimia An eating disorder which is characterized by self-induced vomiting after eating. (3-09). Print Friendly ...
www.nationalguidelines.org/glossary.cfm
Bulimia Nervosa: People with this eating disorder engage in binge eating and purging behaviors. ... spelling, etc., before including it in the glossary. ...
www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.cfm?term=Bulimia Nervo...
bulimia An eating disorder characterized by repeated binge-and-purge bouts. ...
www.wwnorton.com/college/psych/gman5/glossary/B.htm
Hence my interpretation of "insatiable appetite" as compared to others' more "Anglo" (I feel) interpretation.
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Dictionary definitions:
boulimie - sensation de faim excessive, poussant à une consommation exagérée d'aliments [Larousse Lexis]
bulimia - 1. a continuous, abnormal hunger 2. bulimarexia
bulimarexia - an eating disorder, chiefly in young women, characterized by the gorging of large quantities of food followed by purging, as through self-induced vomiting. Cf anorexia nervosa
[Webster's]
Strictly speaking, then, and going by these dictionary definitions, boulimie/bulimia is confined to eating. And that is how I feel it is understood in French, especially in this case where it would be redundant to refer to "purging" since the preceding phrase introduces the notion of pollution.
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What is more, even in English, bulimia does not necessarily involve vomiting :
Bulimia is an obsession with food and weight characterized by repeated overeating binges followed by compensatory behavior, such as forced vomiting or excessive exercise. […]Bulimia is also termed bulimia nervosa and bulimarexia. […]Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behavior in order to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas (purging type); or, through fasting or excessive exercise (nonpurging type).
http://www.gurze.com/client/client_pages/bulimia.cfm
Possibly the similarity of "bouli" with "boule " (round, ball-shaped) facilitates the association, in French, with overeating more than with purging.
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Note too this distinction between "bulimia/boulimie" and "binge eating disorder/hyperphagie boulimique" where the root "bouli" is still present in the French, reinforcing its association with eating alone rather than eating-and-vomiting.
L'hyperphagie boulimique ou "Binge eating disorder"
Tandis que la Boulimique [definition on same page] parvient à contrôler son poids tant bien que mal par le vomissement provoqué ou d'autres méthodes, l'hyperphage boulimique n'utilise pas de telles techniques et est donc la plupart du temps en surpoids
http://www.gros.org/pagesgros/tca.html#Ancrebn
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