Emitting carbon is expensive so will you all please do less of it?
Just as in manufacturing, the solution to the growing complexity of white-collar work is to do less of it in-house.
If my work is installing solar panels and I do less of it then I doubt that this will reduce environmental impacts.
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Others insist that many of the people who now retire at 62 do so less because of choice than because of failing health or inability to find another job if they are laid off in their early 60s.
Later, as my company grew I began to do less and less in terms of actual development work until finally the company was acquired.
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Do you think you would be miserable if your colleague and peer made more of a salary than you do but for less work of course?
Where there might actually be a real job to do and rather less of the tea parties and opening garden fetes.
This battle made me more respectful of those who truly do it well and less tolerant of those who only speak about doing it.
Ugly children start to do less well at school because of the low expectations placed on them: they have less belief in themselves, less confidence, they receive less personal attention from their tutors, and so on.
Indeed, the sports scientists say that some people - including pregnant women and those aged 65 or older - might be advised to do slightly less exercise and modify the type of activities they do.
For Romney, a lot of that may have less to do with his wealth than the perception of his stiff demeanor, said Jennifer Duffy, a senior editor with The Cook Political Report.
However, eight out of parents said their children were playing the same amount of sport or less during school hours following the Games and its results suggested many pupils do less than the recommended two hours of sport a week.
For example, using swarms of CubeSats to do the work of one communications satellite for less money.
Neither does it do anything to encourage less usage of these services.
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But he said many well-intended government initiatives were disappearing and the council would now have the freedom and flexibility to do less and make better use of taxpayers' money.
Meanwhile, a smaller share of Americans are going to classical-music concerts, and many who do attend are visiting less often, instead of buying season passes, said Jesse Rosen, chief executive officer of the League of American Orchestras, a trade organization.
Because these days farming has little to do with God and even less to do with the can-do spirit of American individualism.
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Most of the coalition's problems have had less to do with its complexion than its occasional bouts of incompetence: Mr Cameron's self-confidence has sometimes tipped into insouciance and neglect of detail, as in a botched proposal to privatise forests and, more importantly, the well-intentioned but chaotic bid to make the National Health Service more efficient.
When you raise the price of work you get less of it, and as production declines so do the number of jobs.
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They know even less of what to do with them when they have won.
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Effective local policies may have had less to do with the quantity of growth than the quality.
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Often the problems are less to do with the meaning of words than with their unexpected impact on an audience.
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We are, but for reasons that have less to do with the design of your fridge than with the average age of your family.
One way to make the state do less is to hand the job of delivering more public services to providers from the private and voluntary sectors.
The obvious danger is that this may cause universities to do less basic science, and more of the applied science that companies might otherwise do for themselves.
But they have done so in part for reasons that have less to do with the shape of political institutions and the merits (or otherwise) of politicians, than with lifestyles, technology and globalisation.
The decision by the Fed to offer emergency liquidity to Bear Stearns and to facilitate its acquisition by JPMorgan Chase had less to do with the size of Bear's balance-sheet than with its central role in markets for credit-default and interest-rate swaps.
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