Big Oil can still have a decent future as Big Gas, but that will not prove as profitable.The biggest impact of declining demand could be geopolitical.
In many countries, including Spain, the domestic film business is subsidised by the government, limiting the impact of declining DVD sales.
Now the black population, and the politicians who rely on them for support, must deal with the impact of decline, too.
In order to mitigate the impact of decline in species, the government should introduce regulation to ringfence wildlife habitats from farming practices, or prevent the use of "the most harmful" pesticides, said Oliver.
By now, the impact of declining rates has already been factored into prices, but a carefully selected portfolio of bank stocks could still outpace the market, said some fund managers and bank stock analysts.
But now scientists fear the real impact of declining wildlife could be closer to home, with the threat to creatures such as ladybirds posing the harshest danger to biodiversity.
There were probably several reasons for this – from "active" welfare policies that made the workless a better substitute for those in work, to the cumulative impact of declining collective bargaining.
But recent research suggests that the negative impact of declining wealth may even be greater because people react differently to changes in housing wealth than they do to changes in financial wealth.
A host of companies hobbled themselves recently with ill-timed newspaper deals that magnified the impact of declining print advertising.
Goldman said Dell's growth could tick briefly higher in the January 2006 quarter as the impact of declining federal government demand lessens.
