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But emerging-economy growth is now slowing considerably, including in China, where demand is shifting from investment toward consumption.
As 2014 draws to an end, falling oil, gas, and coal prices threaten to undermine investment in green energy and stimulate wasteful consumption.
Rather, they are stimulated in a self-reinforcing fashion by group norms, trends, and advertising, and some increases in consumption deliver no permanent increase in life satisfaction.
It also reflects deep, long-standing concerns about the effects of civilization: urban overcrowding, sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy habits like tobacco and alcohol consumption, overeating, and stress.
But, while per capita indicators are useful for assessing a country’s consumption potential, they do not provide an adequate picture of growth potential, because they include the elderly and the young, who do not contribute to production.
The EU’s consumption of natural gas does not justify building a 55 bcm pipeline.
In 2014, consumption fell 23%, to 387 bcm, from its 2010 peak of 502 bcm, reaching its lowest level since 1995.
Some will argue that Europe’s consumption of gas will grow.
Just seven West European countries (Germany being the biggest) account for some 80% of total EU gas consumption, and all have strong energy-efficiency and renewable-energy programs.
Unless Europe decides to waste cheap natural gas, the decline in its consumption will continue.
Fiscal restraint as reflected by low government consumption relative to income growth is also important.
Exports, traditional catalysts for recovery, have driven the restructuring process so far that both investment and private consumption now contribute increasingly to economic growth in a number of countries.
On the contrary, market confidence remains high, boosting expectations of increased investment and consumption.
I believe that across the globe, America is a symbolic concentration of all the good and bad within our civilization -- from the fantastic development of science and technology, to civil liberty and strong democratic institutions, to the cult of perpetual economic growth and never-ending consumption, to the dictates of materialism and the voiding of human uniqueness by the uniformity of the round-the-clock noise of TV banality.
Since the flying fox became extinct in the 1960s, there has been a decline in new cases of MND in Guam, suggesting that BMAA consumption may have been a key contributor to the disease.
Concentrated in coastal China, this model produced an uneven distribution of output and established a unique pattern of high savings and low consumption.
If successfully implemented, this agenda is likely to reverse global savings and consumption patterns that have underpinned large imbalances in recent years.
China is responsible for the savings side, while the US disproportionately accounts for the consumption side, ultimately turning the Chinese into America’s creditors.
Of course, global savings and consumption patterns have undergone significant change since the financial crisis, with both the West and China trying to restore internal equilibrium.
The War for OilFor decades, through Democratic and Republican presidential administrations, America has pursued a set of straightforward energy policy objectives: keep world oil prices as stable as possible; reduce domestic consumption of oil as painlessly as possible; reduce dependence on foreign imports whenever possible; and diversify the sources of imported oil.
The popular – and official – view is that China is undergoing a transition to a “new normal” of slower GDP growth, underpinned by domestic consumption, rather than exports.
Unless Chinese households are able to reap their fair share of the benefits of economic growth, it is difficult to imagine how a consumption boom is supposed to happen.
With major reforms only half-complete, there are significant opportunities for stable growth based on efficiency and productivity gains, rather than merely on consumption.
America – and the world – would also benefit from a US energy policy that reduces reliance on imports not just by increasing domestic production, but also by cutting consumption, and that recognizes the risks posed by global warming.
Danish energy consumption has remained almost stable since 1981 due to such initiatives while GDP has risen by 70 %.
Traditionally energy production has followed energy consumption.
Energy consumption will consequently have to take place when energy production is high.
Economists are likely to spend months puzzling over why the effect of low oil prices has proved slow to emerge in the consumption statistics.
First and foremost, America’s government and consumers have been engaged in a never-ending consumption binge.
So it is not surprising that private consumption continues to hold up even as US economic growth has shifted into lower gear.
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