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China’s Impact on the Global Economy Trade, Energy, and the Environment

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.

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China’s Impact on the Global Economy Trade, Energy, and the Environment

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  1. China’s Impact on the Global EconomyTrade, Energy, and the Environment March 29, 2014 Robert Kaulfuss Professor of Economics Middlesex Community College BeyondEconomics.org

  2. Per Capita GDP Per Capita GDP 2013 (PPP), Wikimedia Commons

  3. Balance of Trade:Foreign Exchange Reserves Minus External Debt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Country_foreign_exchange_reserves_minus_external_debt.png Based on CIA World Factbook data

  4. Population

  5. China’s Growing Dominance? Weighted average of the share of a country in world GDP, trade, and in world net exports of capitalfrom Arvind Subramanian's “Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance”

  6. The American Dream

  7. Demographics

  8. China Adopts Fast Food

  9. China Adopts the Car Culture

  10. Insatiable Demand for Energy Wall Street Journal

  11. Surging Demand for Oil

  12. Oil Prices in the Industrial Age

  13. The Easy (Cheap) Oil is Gone WashingtonPost.com

  14. Biggest Contributor to CO2

  15. CO2 Levels (Now at 390 ppm)

  16. Arctic & Greenland Ice Melt

  17. Is Economic Growth Sustainable? • Population growth and congestion • Rising cost of energy • Climate change • Environmental degradation • Poverty, starvation, disease • Political conflicts, terrorism

  18. 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.

  19. The Next Era?

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