consumption

finishing the previous post...

Ulrich Beck is a German Sociologist. In his book, World Risk Society, he wrote this astounding fact:

On the back of crucial free-trade pacts like the WTO and NAFTA, for example, consumption is now virtually out of control in the richest countries. It has multiplied six times in less than twenty-five years, according to the UN. The richest 20 percent of the people are consuming roughly six times more food, energy, water, transportation, oil and minerals than their parents were.

All, but the homeless, in America are included in that 20 percent.
Is this a moral issue?