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Dr. Vince Mathews presented by the Collegiate Peaks Forum Series Co-sponsored with Collegiate Peaks Geotourism and GARNA |
“China and India’s Ravenous Appetite for Natural Resources - Their Impact on Colorado.”
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| Vince Matthews became State Geologist and Director of the Colorado Geological Survey in 2004. Dr. Matthews has held tenured positions at two universities and has taught geology at the University of California, University of Northern Colorado, Arizona State University, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, and the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.
In Friday’s FREE lecture “China and India’s Ravenous Appetite for Natural Resources - Their Impact on Colorado” will discuss during the 1990s, China and India were unleashed from Communist and Socialist regimes respectively. China’s GDP is now growing at more than 10 percent per year and India’s at 7-9 percent. Both are drastically increasing their use of all natural resources. Because the world’s mineral and energy resources are being strained to supply these exploding economies, the price of nearly every natural-resource commodity has escalated since 2003.
Colorado is already suffering from a shortage of several mineral commodities. Colorado is, and will be, significantly affected by this new world disorder. Its mineral and energy industry produced $11.7 billion in revenue in 2006 and $11.3 billion in 2007. Because Colorado is so rich in natural resources, the increased pressure to produce this natural wealth will probably result in increasing conflicts among various constituencies.
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