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Global civil society has developed instruments to halt consumption that produces harm.
Fewer livestock would mean fewer animal products in our diet, which would reduce our consumption of harmful saturated fats, leading to a 30% decline in heart disease.
Reducing meat consumption should reduce rates of colorectal cancer as well – the second most common type in men, after lung cancer.
The experience of Cuba in the 1990’s confirms the health effects of reducing fossil-fuel consumption.
A de-carbonization program that cuts across all the major areas of energy use, combined with reduced consumption of animal products, would create substantial benefits for human health and welfare.
Today, it is private consumption in the household sector (70% of GDP) that is in trouble.
China cannot complete its transformation from an export-led economy to one driven by domestic consumption and services unless value creation through innovation exceeds value destruction from excess capacity.
Why Markets Can’t Cool the PlanetMILWAUKEE – With global temperatures rising at an alarming rate, the race is on to lower the world’s consumption of fossil fuels and accelerate the adoption of greener forms of energy.
It will also demand that we overhaul our unsustainable lifestyles and our patterns of production and consumption, while confronting the issue of rapid population growth.
China’s saving will come down as its GDP growth slows, the authorities decontrol interest rates on bank deposit, and the economy rebalances toward consumption.
But they are rapidly catching up as the rate of antibiotics consumption outstrips the pace of economic growth.
This implies that the pre-crisis level of GDP simply was not sustainable, as it required capital inflows in excess of 20% of GDP to finance outsize consumption and construction booms.
The problem is that what really ails the German economy is low domestic consumption and investment, which still need to be addressed.
Greece’s experience during the euro crisis showed that cutting benefits can force retirees to reduce their consumption, causing recessionary pressures.
With able-bodied retirees “working” for a pension, consumption patterns among the elderly need not decline, and governments would have more fiscal space to support the most vulnerable.
But, in order to boost demand, China will also need increased household consumption and improved delivery of higher-value services.
Recent data suggest that, notwithstanding recent wage increases, consumption amounts to only about 35% of GDP.
Expanded social-security programs and a richer menu of saving and investment options could go a long way toward reducing precautionary saving and boosting consumption.
And online platforms are facilitating increased consumption, while expanding market access and financing for smaller businesses.
Any fiscal stimulus now should focus on improving public services, encouraging consumption, and increasing household income.
China’s leaders must do what it takes to ensure that such a slowdown is not viewed as secular trend – a perception that could undermine the consumption and investment that the economy so badly needs.
In normal circumstances, if a country reduces domestic interest rates to boost domestic consumption and investment, its exchange rate depreciates, too, helping exports.
Furthermore, social transfers, including unemployment benefits, should have allowed households to stabilize their consumption.
But the dominant policies during the post-crisis period – fiscal retrenchment and quantitative easing (QE) by major central banks – have offered little support to stimulate household consumption, investment, and growth.
In the US, quantitative easing did not boost consumption and investment partly because most of the additional liquidity returned to central banks’ coffers in the form of excess reserves.
Increasing social transfers during the post-crisis period would have boosted aggregate demand and smoothed out consumption patterns.
The country is home to one-sixth of the world’s people, yet it accounts for almost one-half of global coal consumption.
While last year’s drop in coal use may have been a technical blip, Chinese coal consumption is expected to peak very soon – probably next year.
As renewable energy becomes increasingly cost-competitive with fossil fuels and energy consumption becomes more efficient, China will become better able to reduce emissions without undermining economic growth.
On these criteria, Deauville, in French Normandy, with the (slightly faded) elegance of a past era of elite luxury, ostentatious consumption, and sumptuous banquets, is also perhaps not an altogether fortunate choice for the G-8 meeting.
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