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Bank regulators had long insisted that the safest possible financial instrument was a bond issued by a rich industrial country.
The Big BlinkCHICAGO – World growth is likely to remain subdued over the next few years, with industrial countries struggling to repair household and government balance sheets, and emerging markets weaning themselves off of industrial-country demand.
If we want to talk about billions of new consumers, rather than the tens of millions who have incomes similar to the middle classes in industrial countries, we must recognize that many emerging-market consumers have much lower incomes than industrial-country consumers, and live in vastly different conditions.
Companies in the industrial world are taking note.
Over the next decade, growth in this kind of developing-country demand will help offset the slow growth of demand in industrial countries.
Unfortunately, with high levels of unemployment in industrial countries, policymakers want to do something – anything – to increase growth fast.
The US (and other industrial countries) could argue that it has high levels of unemployment and should be free to adopt policies that boost growth, even at the expense of growth in emerging markets.
Any development of fusion reactors would require producing tritium with industrial methods that have yet to be invented.
But if fusion is ever to work in industrial power stations, it will take many decades.
Even if ITER is successful, and if one solves the tritium and material problems, everything would need to be tested in real size, and only then could a first prototype of an industrial reactor be built.
At a summit meeting in 2013 at the Sunnylands retreat in California, President Barack Obama showed China’s President Xi Jinping the evidence that members of the Chinese military had been stealing industrial technology.
The Chinese accepted the evidence, agreed that stealing industrial technology was different from other forms of espionage, and said that the Chinese government would not assist in such theft in the future.
Here’s the list: “Other countries have used dumping, discriminatory non-tariff barriers, forced technology transfers, noneconomic capacity, industrial subsidies, and other support from governments and state-owned enterprises to gain economic advantages.”
Like dumping, that, together with explicit industrial subsidies, is an “unfair” policy that nonetheless actually helps American consumers.
Moreover, today’s cutting-edge technologies – such as robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and bioengineering – are more complex than industrial machinery, and may be more difficult to copy.
And now our industrial model for meat production is being exported to the global south – especially India and China – where meat consumption is rising among these countries’ emerging middle classes.
Such large amounts of meat can be produced only on an industrial scale, and at high social, political, and ecological costs.
Worldwide, our industrial agriculture system produces an estimated 14% of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions; including emissions indirectly linked to deforestation, and those associated with fertilizer production, increases that share to 24%.
If we are serious about addressing climate change and securing every human being’s right to proper nutrition and food security, we must challenge the presumption that an industrial agricultural model, let alone meat, is necessary to feed the world.
But if the 9.6 billion people expected to inhabit the planet by then were to have a plant-based diet, industrial meat production could be abandoned and all of them could be fed without the need for any additional agricultural land.
The industrial agriculture system’s production chains must be replaced with local, decentralized, and sustainable production chains.
As it stands now, large-scale industrial meat producers are profiting extensively from EU subsidies; but these subsidies could be redirected as investments in decentralized meat and grain production chains that adhere to a more sustainable model.
Doing so requires recognizing that realistic alternatives to industrial agriculture do exist.
But, to implement this shift, governments must ensure that all people have guaranteed access to land and potable water, and they need to create political frameworks to promote ecologically and socially just agricultural models – which, by definition, excludes industrial agriculture.
I grew up in an industrial town on the south shore of Lake Michigan - Gary, Indiana - and saw poverty, unemployment, and discrimination.
It should be playing a much more active role both in meeting Africa’s demand for imports and in stimulating industrial and agricultural development across the continent.
In the last couple of decades, the country has made great strides in export-led growth, supported by a growing industrial sector and large investments from China.
Meanwhile, US annual spending for health care totals $4,600 per capita, over twice the average of other industrial countries.
Bank executives, like sinking industrial firm executives, have reason to “pray and delay,” hoping that some new development will save them.
Housing policy is typically discussed with blatant disregard for urban transport and the locations where industrial and business zones are authorized.
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