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The sacrifices of the participating countries would alleviate the CO2 problem only if their restraint meant that some of the fossil resources they do not consume remain underground.
Twenty thousand public companies consume 65% of the national budget and handle 80% of exports, as well as 50% of internal trade.
It also means that people who otherwise might consume news in moderation are being inundated with political polemic and debate, including extreme positions and falsehoods, which heighten the risk of misinforming or polarizing wider swaths of the public.
The problem is that Greece produces very little of what the world wants to consume.
They cannot simply do what is best for their country today; they must also consider the implications of their choices – how much oil wealth they consume, how much to invest in human and physical capital, and how much to save – for future generations.
Lacking in domestic saving and wanting to consume and grow, America must import surplus saving from abroad and run massive current-account and trade deficits to attract the foreign capital.
With more income at their disposal, people begin to consume more of their food basket in the form of animal products.
If we are serious about building resilience, we need to press ahead with tough systemic changes that address how we produce and consume energy and finance our economies.
For many developing countries, the figure is well under 20 kwh;China is still well below the global average, and even most emerging markets consume less than one-third of the average in many advanced economies.
Dollar devaluation will only secondarily affect Americans who consume imported goods or who work in businesses that distribute imports to consumers.
In Slovenia, for example, if the government implements EU-wide climate targets, the new EIB-financed Sostanj lignite unit will consume most of that country’s CO2 emissions quota by 2050.
The huge quantities of local water that LWRs consume for their operations become hot-water outflows, which are pumped back into rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Simply put, America needs to save more and consume less, while China needs to save less and consume more.
From restaurant kitchens to care for the elderly, from harvesting cotton to laboring on building sites, people in rich countries want to consume services that they are no longer willing to provide themselves.
The next 95% would create much more happiness and opportunity if it was divided evenly among US citizens or others than if they were to consume any portion of it.
In reality, their lives, the information they consume, and the choices they make will be determined by algorithms and platforms controlled by unaccountable corporate or government elites.
Each year, oil subsidies consume 1.5% of the continent’s GDP – roughly $50 billion.
But won’t an increasingly indebted government have to pay ever-higher interest rates, so that debt-service costs eventually consume its entire revenue?
The reasons for weak aggregate demand include aging populations that consume less and the growing concentration of wealth among the very rich, whose marginal propensity to consume is small.
As our cars, planes, buildings, and appliances all become more efficient, we continue to find new and creative ways to consume energy.
Worse, the recovery is likely to be anemic and sub-par – well below potential for a couple of years, if not longer – as the burden of debts and leverage of the private sector combine with rising public sector debts to limit the ability of households, financial firms, and corporations to lend, borrow, spend, consume, and invest.
And it needs to adopt energy-saving technologies that consume less commercial energy.
Texas rice farmers, however, pay just $10, and every year they consume the equivalent of a five-foot flood.
Trees consume large amounts of carbon dioxide as they grow, making them vital tools for absorbing the greenhouse-gas emissions – from cars, factories, power stations, and livestock – that result in climate change.
Let people see how they are being manipulated already by advertising, product formulations, and the media to buy more, consume more, and want more.
A firm’s decision to lend, not consume capital to expand its market share, results in unemployment as well as growing pressures on those still in the labor force.
Abe’s Asian GambitCANBERRA – With the world producing more history than most of us can consume right now, it is easy to lose sight of recent developments that could have even greater consequences for long-term peace and stability than recent alarming events in eastern Ukraine, Gaza, and Syria-Iraq.
This is the price that the US must pay for its lunch: Americans can continue to consume a lot, but the jobs are elsewhere.
As a result, the PPUs consume only about 10% as much water as traditional farms.
The result is a combustible mixture of extremism and hopelessness that threatens to consume the Pakistani state, as government-sponsored terrorists now turn on their erstwhile patrons.
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