Sentences with phrase «dependent on consumption»

Finally be careful not to wreck retirement saving: a major long term cause of Britain's economic problems is that savings and investment have been too low and the economy over dependent on consumption.

Not exact matches

By contrast, in coastal provinces, private consumption has on average become more self - sustaining and less dependent on investment.

In 2005, when consumption hit the then - astonishing level of 40 % of GDP, there was a widespread conviction in policy - making circles that this was an unacceptably low level and that it left Chinese growth much too dependent on the trade surplus and on increases in domestic investment.

Until the mid-2000s, animation consumption in China was largely dependent on foreign productions.

We must engineer the green economy of the future to compensate for the collapse of a discredited economic model dependent on credit binges, gravity defying house prices and increasing consumption.

«hard times as the bondholders buy fewer goods and services» doesn't apply in two cases - first, for non-local bondholders; second, for ultra-rich bondholders whose consumption isn't directly dependent on their short - term income.

Everyone agrees now that in the past Britain's economy had become lopsided — too dependent on debt, consumption and financial services.

«The trade - off is [reduced oil consumption] exacerbates the problems of the transport program that's dependent on ever more driving and fuel consumption,» he said.

Excess consumption of vegetable oils also causes problems with hormone production, since hormones are dependent on certain fats for their manufacture.

Binge - Like Consumption of a Palatable Food Accelerates Habitual Control of Behavior and Is Dependent on Activation of the Dorsolateral Striatum

The reason we're concerned is that the increased consumption of animal - derived food may have adverse effects on the development of hormone - dependent cancers.

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* The fuel consumption and CO2 figures are provisional and were calculated based on the EU test cycle, dependent on tyre format.

The update for the current model generation, which also benefits the MINI Hardtop 4 door (combined fuel consumption: 6.2 — 4.8 l / 100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 141 — 110 g / km; EU test cycle figures, dependent on tyre format selected), ranges from specific design modifications and innovative customisation options through to an extension of the equipment program and the addition of the latest MINI Connected digital services.

Showcased at the exhibition stand of the tradition - steeped British brand, it will be a joint premiere for the new MINI Hardtop (combined fuel consumption: 6.0 — 4.8 l / 100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 138 — 109 g / km) and the MINI Convertible (combined fuel consumption: 6.3 — 5.2 l / 100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 144 — 118 g / km; EU test cycle figures, dependent on tyre format selected) at a major international motor show.

* The fuel consumption figures were calculated based on the ECE test cycle, dependent on tyre format.

As oil exporting nations experience both declining oil production and increased domestic oil consumption, they will reduce oil exports to the U.S. Because the U.S. is highly dependent on imported oil for transportation, food production, industry, and residential heating, the nation will experience the impacts of declining oil supplies sooner and more severely than much of the world.

But I would say smaller population would consume less per capita, because consumption is dependent on the ability of large scale industries to generate goods and services.

Production of wood pellets also consumes electricity and the range of consumption is dependent on moisture content of the harvested forest.

Consumption ranges from 250 kWh per ton to 300 kWh, dependent on moisture content.

They could paralyze modern society, which has become so dependent on abundant water supplies for agriculture, energy generation, human consumption and other uses.

Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism of the human economy exceeds the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).

At every stage from extraction / production to transportation to consumption, all forms of energy are heavily regulated and dependent on public subsidies and public infrastructure.

Small scale renewable energy obviously won't put a dent in the more massive emissions problems but it is an aspect of approaching energy production and consumption in some regions around the world, dependent on geography and development needs.

The Pacific Island Countries are currently heavily dependent on fossil fuels, with petroleum products accounting for an estimated 80 percent of its primary commercial energy consumption.

«Preventing catastrophic warming is dependent on tackling meat and dairy consumption, but the world is doing very little,» Rob Bailey, the report's lead author said in the Guardian.

That makes the world's tech - dominated new economies less dependent on oil consumption than in the past.