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The crisis in Ukraine, many of whose Soviet-era industries depend on cheap Russian gas, soon spread to Europe, which consumes 80% of Russian gas exports, when Ukraine began to divert gas from the pipeline that crosses its territory.
The United States, the country that consumes the most, is moving in the opposite direction: women are struggling to hold onto their reproductive rights, wealth distribution is becoming increasingly skewed, and corporations are becoming even more powerful.
When e-mail first came into vogue, one could spend 15-20 minutes a day on it; now it consumes 2-3 hours.
At the same time, India's growing population will make increasing demands on water supplies - mainly for agriculture, which absorbs more than 80% of all the fresh water India consumes.
But, as Martin Feldstein and George Shultz recently put it, “if a country consumes more than it produces, it must import more than it exports.
Aid to agriculture, a declining sector, consumes over 40% of spending and little is spent on the future (R&D) or on fields in which the EU must assume new responsibilities, such as internal and external security.
For example, the agricultural sector consumes nearly 70% of the water used globally (in countries like India and Egypt, it uses around 90% of the available supply), and water often cannot be transported without substantial energy use.
The CAP consumes about half of the Union's budget--an unimpressive symbol for a community that aims to become a player in world politics.
Quenching America’s Thirst for OilThe United States consumes a quarter of the world’s oil, compared to 8% for China.
Energy independence may be impossible for a country that consumes a quarter of the world’s oil but has only 3% of its reserves.
Though agriculture consumes about 80% of freshwater stocks in Asia, most countries cannot correctly measure how much water is used to grow a crop, and how much of that water is re-used downstream.
Africa still imports about one-third of the food, beverages, and similar processed goods it consumes, whereas the Association of Southeast Asian Nations imports about 20%, and South America’s Mercosur trade bloc imports just 10%.
Establishing floor prices for many agricultural products, and ensuring that Mexico produces what it consumes, runs counter to many NAFTA provisions – and to Trump’s goal of reducing the bilateral US trade deficit.
The opioid crisis in the US shows no sign of abating, and a significant share of the heroin and fentanyl it consumes comes from Mexico, directly or in transit.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health-care costs push as many as 100 million people below this line every year, with 150 million others facing “catastrophic health-care costs,” defined as healthcare spending that consumes 40% of the household budget after basic needs have been met.
European states can influence whether or not war consumes Sudan in 2011.
But it accounts for only 12% of the EU’s overall energy consumption, meaning that, over the next ten years, the EU would have to supplement only about 6% of the energy it consumes.
Senegal under Wade has succeeded in irrigating only 15% of a planned 250,000 hectares, and now imports some 80% of the rice that it consumes.
Steel production alone consumes 18% of the country’s energy resources, nearly twice as much as all Chinese households.
The chemical industry consumes more energy than all private transportation, and aluminum production rivals the commercial sector in terms of electricity demand.
The Chinese auto industry is capable of building 40 million cars per year for a market that currently consumes 26 million.
Petroleum independent until 1993, China now consumes more and more imported petroleum every year, and power consumption is predicted to double by 2025, requiring an average of one new coal-fired plant to come on line each week.
Although the industry consumes around 10%of the world’s oil output, it does so with great care.
It now spends less than 1% on lighting and consumes more than a hundred times as much artificial illumination.
In most countries, however, the main focus of conservation efforts should be the agricultural sector, which wastes roughly half of the water that it consumes, owing to inefficient irrigation systems.
By capping the exchange rate and producing far more than it consumes, China’s reserves grew into a Leviathan, hitting the $1 trillion mark in 2005.
The US still consumes more than it produces, running a chronic trade deficit.
Technological innovation and recyclable inputs can make a huge difference to the way the world produces and consumes.
Start with the American consumer, who consumes everything on earth (helping the United States eat up 25% of world oil production) but saves essentially nothing.
The large number of elderly and retired people means that spending on health care and social security now consumes 29.2% of the budget, a one-third increase since 2000.
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