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The battle to keep the world's cities – and thus the global economy – both dynamic and sustainable can be won by developing innovative ways to consume our limited resources, without diminishing them or degrading the delicate ecological systems on which they depend.
The fourth challenge is to change how we produce, transport, and consume energy .
We can also encourage households to consume less energy, and companies to reduce the amount of energy that they waste.
A greater tendency to consume would “serve to increase at the same time the inducement to invest.”
A third argument is that if speculation were to blame for price increases, there should have been an increase in oil inventories, because speculators do not consume oil but instead store it for later sale.
Globalization allowed the US to suck up the savings of the rest of the world and consume more than it produced, with its current account deficit reaching 6.2% of GNP in 2006.
A decline in the proportion of people who use tobacco, consume unhealthy diets, are physically inactive, and/or have elevated blood pressure and cholesterol does more than just prevent disease.
Citizens around the world are championing a vision of a better future – a future in which communities, not corporations, manage their natural resources and ecosystems as commons, and people consume less, create less toxic plastic waste, and enjoy a generally healthier environment.
The fire spread so fast that by the time Arab leaders understood what it would consume, it was beyond anyone’s control, and in more than one country.
In fact, however, there is plenty of evidence for the rival narrative that rapid and deep labor-saving technological change is what is putting pressure on wages, and that imports of cheap labor-intensive goods that US workers consume are actually offsetting that distress.
For some countries, such as in southern Europe, tackling unemployment is critical to enable middle- and lower-income households to save and consume.
And as these technologies continue to be developed and widely adopted, they will bring about radical shifts in all disciplines, industries, and economies, and in the way that individuals, companies, and societies produce, distribute, consume, and dispose of goods and services.
If people want the same level of government services relative to other things that they consume, government spending will take up a larger and larger share of national output over time.
Negotiating a complicated divorce and a new relationship with Britain could consume the EU’s political oxygen (especially if, as is quite possible, the UK itself breaks up, with Scotland rejoining Europe).
Of America’s top 15 trading partners – that is, self-sufficient countries that consume US goods and services – 11 are former aid recipients.
One method of measurement is “natural capital accounting,” which assesses the value of natural resources in development planning and national accounts, just as a family would account for their home’s value – and the cost of maintaining it – when deciding how much of their regular income to consume.
Can the values of a consumer society be applied to societies with nothing to consume?
And by changing the system frequently and making it more complicated to access, Britain’s leaders are also forcing the poor to consume more mental bandwidth.
Unfortunately, with electricity supply intermittent even when available, compressor-based electric refrigerators, which consume a lot of power, have not been an option.
If US growth accelerates, America’s capacity to consume other countries’ goods and services will increase, thereby boosting growth around the world.
There is only one problem: Chinese people do not seem to want to consume, at least according to commonly cited data.
Far too much of the meat we consume is produced under questionable ecological, ethical, and social conditions.
The irony of hyper-connectivity is that people are less discerning not only about the products they buy, but also with the information they consume.
Americans consume the most meat per capita, after Luxembourgers.
In order to ensure that their animals gain weight rapidly, meat producers feed them grain, rather than the grass that they would naturally consume – an approach that is a major source of pressure on grain production, natural resources, and the environment.
Redistributive measures go quite well with stimulus policies, because they may be expected to increase aggregate demand in the short term (owing to lower-income households’ higher propensity to consume) and minimize the economy’s dependence on debt financing in the long term.
For example, though Libya’s economy is almost entirely dependent on Western expertise and markets to produce and consume its oil, former leader Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi pursued a virulently anti-Western foreign policy.
In my view, a focus on global public goods – things everyone can consume without diminishing their availability to others – could help America reconcile its preponderant power with others’ interests.
The export of Syria’s civil war is likely to consume far more time in the coming months than either candidate wants to admit.
But the islanders carefully cleaned the seeds to remove the toxin before eating them, and they did not consume large enough quantities to cause damage.
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