CHINA REPLACING THE UNITED STATES AS WORLD’S LEADING CONSUMER
[Earth Policy Institute]: Although
the United States has long consumed the lion’s share of the world’s
resources, this situation is changing fast as the Chinese economy
surges ahead, overtaking the United States in the consumption of one
resource after another.
Among the five basic food, energy, and industrial commodities–grain and
meat, oil and coal, and steel–consumption in China has already eclipsed
that of the United States in all but oil.
PS: eclipsed in hamburgers too.
