china’s impact on the global economy trade, energy, and the environment
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China’s Impact on the Global Economy Trade, Energy, and the Environment. March 29, 2014 Robert Kaulfuss Professor of Economics Middlesex Community College BeyondEconomics.org. Per Capita GDP. Per Capita GDP 2013 (PPP), Wikimedia Commons. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
China’s Impact on the Global EconomyTrade, Energy, and the Environment
March 29, 2014Robert KaulfussProfessor of EconomicsMiddlesex Community CollegeBeyondEconomics.org
Per Capita GDP
Per Capita GDP 2013 (PPP), Wikimedia Commons
Balance of Trade:Foreign Exchange Reserves Minus External Debt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Country_foreign_exchange_reserves_minus_external_debt.pngBased on CIA World Factbook data
Population
China’s Growing Dominance?
Weighted average of the share of a country in world GDP, trade, and in world net exports of capital from Arvind Subramanian's “Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance”
The American Dream
Demographics
China Adopts Fast Food
China Adopts the Car Culture
Insatiable Demand for Energy
Wall Street Journal
Surging Demand for Oil
Oil Prices in the Industrial Age
The Easy (Cheap) Oil is Gone
WashingtonPost.com
Biggest Contributor to CO2
CO2 Levels (Now at 390 ppm)
Arctic & Greenland Ice Melt•
Is Economic Growth Sustainable?• Population growth and
congestion• Rising cost of energy• Climate change• Environmental degradation• Poverty, starvation, disease• Political conflicts, terrorism
Their Moonshot and OursThomas Friedman, 9/25/2010
China Inc. just named its dream team of 16-state-owned enterprises to move China off oil and into the next industrial growth engine: electric cars.
Not to worry. America today also has its own multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing moon shot: fixing Afghanistan.
We need to be in a race with China, not just Al Qaeda. Let’s start with electric cars.
The Next Era?