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In this atmosphere of public silence, the virtually vacant public space is filled with odd voices that are not intended for public consumption.
Khodorkovsky's letter may have appeared in the public space, but it was not intended for public consumption.
Improving energy efficiency can actually lead to more energy consumption.
Advocates suggest that there is a significant “energy-efficiency gap”: governments and businesses have overlooked and forgone investments that could significantly reduce energy consumption at low cost.
Fortunately, public awareness of the effects of fossil-fuel consumption is growing.
Official analyses downplay the effect of lower marginal tax rates on taxable income, but experience shows that taxable income rises substantially as taxpayers respond to lower marginal rates by working more, taking more of their compensation in taxable cash than in fringe benefits, and reducing their tax-deductible consumption.
This approach would enable European economies to adjust gradually to the new conditions, while giving them time to search for new energy sources, improve conservation, and reduce consumption.
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.
Meanwhile, European countries should intensify efforts to diversify their energy supplies, which should include higher imports from allies like the United States and a significant increase in renewable energy’s share of consumption.
Since 1860, when the industrial revolution and soaring population growth led to widespread consumption of fossil fuels, the volume of atmospheric CO2 has increased by about 28%.
The only rational course of action would seem to be to curtail global consumption of fossil fuels, as the Kyoto Treaty's proponents contend, and invest in alternative energy sources.
A subsidy distorts trade if it increases production (unless magically, it raises consumption by the same amount.)
Yet, as China gradually increases domestic consumption rather than relying on exports as its engine of economic growth, its leaders may begin to feel less dependent than they now are on access to the US market as a source of job creation, which is crucial for internal political stability.
This would require politically difficult shifts in consumption and investment, with America increasing its savings and China increasing domestic consumption.
In the US, excess domestic consumption, based on a debt-fueled asset bubble, helped to sustain employment and growth, though the current account held worrying signs.
Increased life expectancy is causing the share of elderly people to grow, while economic development and urbanization reduce physical activity and increase consumption of processed food, alcohol, and tobacco.
Given that agriculture accounts for 70% of water consumption, on average, worldwide, it seems logical that this sector should be the focus of conservation measures.
Developing countries have begun sharing in these gains: responsible for next-to-none of the world’s fertilizer consumption in 1960, by 2000 they used more than industrialized countries.
Alternative cooling technologies for power generation, including dry or hybrid cooling, can reduce water consumption (though the use of such technologies currently is constrained by efficiency losses and higher costs).
Capitalism could be reconstructed after World War II because it was buttressed by three necessary types of regulation: social security, which served as a principal stabilizer, at least in the developed countries;Keynesian tools to fight domestic cyclical downturns; and a universal high-wage policy aimed at stimulating general consumption, without which the genius of capitalism – mass production – does not work.
And President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras has called for the legalization of drug consumption as a means to end the violence related to its production and trafficking.
But if every country tries to stimulate consumption at the same time, it won’t work.
A general rise in global demand will simply spill over into higher commodity prices, with little helpful effect on consumption.
The historic influx of new entrants into the global work force, each aspiring to Western consumption standards, is simply pushing global growth past the safety marker on the speed dial.
Won’t high prices cause people to conserve on consumption and seek out new sources of supply?
But the process takes time, and, because of the rising weight of relatively inflexible emerging market economies in global consumption, adjustment will probably take longer than it did a few decades ago.
The goal is to combat a severe drought by reducing residential consumption by 20%.
The trouble is that residential water use accounts for less than 15% of total consumption.
With private and public consumption in both Italy and Spain set to remain depressed for years to come, economic recovery requires stronger investment and exports.
These reforms require the sacrifice of certain kinds of protections, as well as of income and consumption growth.
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