"It helped to politicise and organise crofters, who took national and local opportunities to push demands for land reform".
In 2008 a still-growing rich world and a boom in developing countries pushed demand for oil and food up against the limits of supply.
The world's leading watchmaker, Swatch Group of Switzerland, said 1999 profits rose nearly 24percentto to $265 million, with global economic growth pushing demand for its luxury models.
A frenzy of construction — including a government program to build hundreds of thousands of subsidized low-cost homes, increased public investment in creaking infrastructure and the preparations for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games — already has pushed demand for construction materials to record highs and driven up the cost of skilled labor.
Population growth and, more importantly, the rapidly growing middle classes in the developing world, are pushing demand for grain-intensive protein ever higher, while rising energy costs are pushing up the cost of supply.
Adrienne Downey, research analyst with Semico Research, an industry research firm in Scottsdale, Ariz., says that the surge in demand for cell phones and Internet routers and switches have pushed demand for SRAM supplies nearly to shortage status.
On the one hand, many existing oil fields were being depleted at a torrid pace, leading experts to predict an imminent "peak" in global oil production, followed by an irreversible decline; on the other, rapid economic growth in China, India, and other developing nations was pushing demand for fossil fuels into the stratosphere.
High energy prices push demand here for both exploration and reservoir management.
Others will push demand ever higher for decades to come.
Tougher caps would push up demand for more offsetting in the developing world.
