An aging refinery infrastructure, increased domestic gasoline consumption, unexpected distribution disruptions and dwindling oil and gasoline reserves have pushed the U.S. to the edge.
For starters, content creators need to start thinking of themselves more as publishing engines that can drive content creation, distribution and consumption in an innovative and scalable way.
One key to achieving Agrimonde's proposal is convincing people in rich countries to limit their waste and meat consumption and create more even distribution of animal products in diets around the world.
It's that demand for a high return that is keeping the fund from investing in wine retailing and distribution in Asia, despite the fact that wine consumption has risen from 0.1 liter per person annually in 1987 to as much as 3 liters today.