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So they are forced to rely on their savings, and virtually stop consuming.
The United Kingdom’s impending “Brexit” from the EU is also consuming much attention.
Likewise, if the US is consuming too much, why has it been closing manufacturing capacity, and why is there so much labor market softness?
In other words, we are producing and consuming much more than our economic indicators suggest – and the creators of many of those products are not being adequately compensated.
Yet ethnic and religious conflict in both “megastates” is consuming many lives.
The result is a proliferation of platforms for producing, aggregating, disseminating, and consuming content.
The rhetoric of energy independence in the oil-consuming countries makes the situation even worse: the oil-producing countries are building energy-intensive industries to guarantee a market for their oil once consuming nations wean themselves of imported oil.
To combat the effect of high oil prices, consuming countries adopt expansionary economic policies, lowering interest rates and increasing government spending.
Research published this month concluded that consuming all remaining hydrocarbons would result in the melting of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, potentially raising sea levels by 58 meters.
Farmers’ markets, wood stoves, solar panels, and Agway farm-supply stores are the new focus of aspirational dreams for people who not long ago were high on boundless credit, consuming luxury brands scaled down for the middle class, and fantasizing about the kind of life on display in glossy magazines.
Globally, more than 30 million tons of oil equivalent are consumed in the form of primary energy every day, equivalent to 55 kilowatt hours per person per day, with rich countries, on average, consuming more than twice that figure.
The bottom line is that China and India are still large economies, growing rapidly, and consuming massive amounts of resources.
If producing and consuming countries in grain markets could cooperatively agree to refrain from such government intervention – probably by working through the World Trade Organization – world price volatility might be lower.
After all, while financial incentives, targeted policies, and technological innovation are needed to catalyze new ways of producing and consuming, they cannot reshape people’s value systems so that they willingly uphold and advance the principles of sustainable development.
Instead, as in Kosovo, it must confront those hidden forces that can suddenly burst above ground, consuming many people in the fires of rage.
In many countries, such as India, obesity-related illnesses like heart disease are consuming up to 30% of families’ annual incomes.
Personal assistance is “time consuming,” she admits, but it is individuals who “make the difference.”
For, even if America’s banks were healthy, household wealth has been devastated, and Americans were borrowing and consuming on the assumption that house prices would rise forever.
PlantLab’s pitch is that a PPU the size of a city block and just a few stories high could produce the same volume of high-quality crops as a large farm, while consuming fewer resources.
And climate change is the biggest externality of all, with the harmful consequences likely to be suffered by future generations worldwide, rather than primarily by those currently producing and consuming fossil fuels.
As the director of the State Council’s Development Research Center, Li Wei, pointed out in February, at the current rate, China will be consuming 800 million tons of oil annually, and importing 75% of its petroleum, by 2030.
You can produce the result just as well by consuming more or working less.
On the contrary, they may be harmful, leading to an increased risk of mortality in people consuming them.
Basic issues concerning the efficacy and safety of consuming relatively high doses of antioxidant supplements need to be resolved.
And by applying remote sensing technology to river basins, we can determine how much surface water is available and who is consuming what.
And perhaps, in its likely view of the world as being more than the sum of consuming, competing autonomies, or gender warfare, it would be a valuable challenge to truisms that we Western feminists – and the men who love us – have thought we had to take for granted.
The trend by which consuming countries grow steadily more reliant on energy from a small number of producing countries threatens to exacerbate energy-security worries.
In the world of high politics, people behave no differently: they slice their salami before consuming it.
Fuel subsidies are widespread in developing countries, consuming some 25-30% of government revenues – much more than education spending, in most cases.
Meanwhile, the nature of the basic consuming unit – the household – is also changing rapidly.
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