Some believe Greenland could because the next Kazakhstan referring to that countries abundance of natural resources.
And not surprisingly, the biggest growth is recorded in countries where there is an abundance of natural resources.
With such an abundance of natural gas in the United States, supply vastly exceeds demand and prices are cheap.
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Despite the abundance of natural wealth, poor fiscal management has stifled the economy.
But the fresh abundance of natural gas has also weighed on its price, undercutting the profitability of the business for energy companies.
Besides farming, an abundance of natural resources are also coming to light and prospecting companies are already busy, hoping for a bonanza.
This huge abundance of natural gas is a blessing for Texas in the power generation sector, as electric providers look for alternatives as increasingly strict EPA air quality regulations make it more and more difficult to generate electricity by burning coal.
Moreover, the abundance of natural gas is fueling the growth of domestic production of all sorts of materials that use natural gas as a feedstock while lowering the utility bills of millions of Americans, exactly the opposite of what is promised by green energy.
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There is no scarcity in the Islamic world, rather there is an abundance of natural resources, material reserves and wealth, but how great a tragedy it is that a major portion of their wealth is utilized by the enemies through deposits in foreign banks, or spent in extravagance, debauchery, undue luxuries, and immoralities.
The diamond-encrusted disc symbolizes the natural abundance of the Bunder diamond deposit.
The sanctuary is home to minke whales of the Southern Hemisphere, the only remaining population of great whales in the Antarctic still at a level close to their natural abundance.
Once, the wealth of a nation was defined by the expanse of its land, the size of its population or the strength of its army, the abundance of its natural resources.
Perhaps in some future generation, when the fear of losing everything or the belief that bad things happen for no reason at all have all been relegated to the scrap heap of history, abundance will be the natural experience on Earth as people embrace their own perception that good fortune flows easily when trust rather than fear is the unwavering belief.
Separately, coal-fired generation has fallen to less than 40% of U.S. power generation on account of the abundance and lower prices of natural gas.
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"The sudden abundance of low-cost natural gas is a gift, " said Tim Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, who, as a U.S. senator, ran the hearings that turned climate change into a national issue.
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At the moment prices for oil and the other natural resources Russia exports in abundance are quite high, which, at least in the past, resulted in a situation in which the economy grew at a healthy clip.
High world prices for the commodities that Australia produces in abundance iron ore, coal, liquefied natural gas have definitely helped.
It has required citizens to adapt their cars to run on natural gas, which Iran has in abundance.
The country has an abundance of energy resources - substantial oil reserves and natural gas reserves second only to those of Russia.
Apparently exporting something America has in abundance creates economic value in this case, natural gas, not wheat (but that would be obvious).
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Most of those eventual transitions were fueled by the abundance of cheap energy, either in the form of abundant natural resources, slave labor, or the advent of fossil fuel beginning with coal in the British Empire after 1850.
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Natural gas export levels that allow producers to achieve attractive returns would increase the abundance and reliability of supply, as well as help unlock considerable macroeconomic and geopolitical advantages.
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Have the folks at Reuters been sleeping the last 5 years, as the supply situation related to U.S. natural gas has been fundamentally transformed from one of scarcity to one of almost unprecedented abundance?
It also means that whereas population growth may not be a global problem, it could often be a very nasty local one, causing conflict over local resources, especially water, and privation when politics (frequently) or natural disaster (occasionally) cause local scarcity or epidemic disease even within a wider world of abundance and improving health.
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