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If that proves to be true, then by 2020 – and perhaps as early as 2015 – the contribution of Middle East oil to world energy consumption could become negligible.
Reviving conservation, management, and distribution efforts could reduce water consumption and increase efficiency, but these measures need to be combined with radical reforms to speed the transition away from oil dependence to a zero-carbon renewable-energy infrastructure.
China’s growth has slowed largely as a result of changes in its fundamentals: less favorable demographics, a shift in emphasis from exports and public investment to the service sector and domestic consumption, and lower demand from advanced economies.
Our study concludes that India can have faster economic and industrial growth, higher rates of energy consumption, and a cleaner environment.
The recovery of dynamism, demand, and consumption depends on its success.
The trend for household consumption is less clear.
But many economists have found evidence that growth in household consumption in the first half of 2012 was stronger than official statistics have shown.
China’s consumption rate is 36%.
Compared to Japan’s total energy consumption – 512 million kL of crude oil in 2016 – this is a drop in the bucket.
If DST were implemented today, it would probably reduce energy consumption by less than 0.2%.
But, given the potential complications associated with introducing DST, it is not clear whether this particular means of reducing energy consumption is worthwhile.
The fuel for the air base came mostly from Russia, and the main Pentagon contractor’s local dealers falsely claimed that it was intended for domestic civilian consumption, thereby benefiting from lower import tariffs.
Moreover, in most parts of the world where energy consumption is expanding, nuclear proliferation is an issue.
Nor do I think that governments should mandate limits on meat consumption.
Such policies are a clear barrier to reducing meat consumption, and they contradict countries’ commitment to meet their Paris-agreement targets.
But they will leave a huge part of the problem untouched if they fail to address the production and consumption of meat and dairy.
Third, China has had to rely on another round of monetary, fiscal, and credit stimulus to prop up an unbalanced and unsustainable growth model based on excessive exports and fixed investment, high saving, and low consumption.
And, because the country’s new leadership – which is conservative, gradualist, and consensus-driven – is unlikely to speed up implementation of reforms needed to increase household income and reduce precautionary saving, consumption as a share of GDP will not rise fast enough to compensate.
In a sense, the strategy worked: a housing bubble fed a consumption boom, as savings rates plummeted to zero.
To see the inadequacy of that package, compare it with the more than $1.5 trillion that was borrowed in home equity loans in recent years, most of it spent on consumption.
So, while the additional liquidity injected into the financial system by the Fed may have prevented a meltdown, it won’t stimulate much consumption or investment.
They advocated stopping economic growth, cutting consumption, and making sure people had fewer children.
Moreover, food crops are being grown to produce bio-fuels, reducing their availability for human consumption.
The US economy, on the other hand, is bogging down in its policymakers’ persistent emphasis on consumption and tax cuts (most notably for the super-rich) over investment.
These investments are needed in the short term to offset the decline in worldwide consumption spending that underlies the global recession.
As a result, they will limit or delay purchases and shift at least some of their consumption to foreign-made products that the tariffs have now made relatively cheaper.
Indeed, the incipient German government is discussing cutting taxes for corporations and the rich, while raising spending on public consumption, especially public pensions.
The St. Petersburg Economic Forum is mostly for international consumption.
Increasingly, Russia’s oil surpluses drive economic growth through rising investment, which boosts construction and consumption, in turn benefiting retail trade and finance.
The final argument against basic income is that the poor will use the money to fund personally or socially detrimental activities, such as gambling and alcohol consumption.
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