And my dad is the most voracious reader I know.

After skiing, I find that I have a voracious appetite.

I'm a voracious reader, a reader who deals with Ian McEwan down to Stephanie Meyer.

And this is this voracious predator launching a sneak attack on this poor little unsuspecting jellyfish there, a by the wind sailor.

The German rebound was initially robust because world trade rose rapidly after a precipitous fall. China s voracious appetite for German cars and machines provided the needed boost, even as Germany s traditional trade partners in Europe struggled.

Even the proliferation of China s economic ties in Africa, the Middle East, and South America may reflect vulnerability rather than imperial ambition. China s voracious quest for new energy sources has already caused it to overstretch its limited ability to protect its sea lanes.

The impact of slowing global trade is most apparent for Germany, which was not burdened with excessive household or corporate debt, and enjoyed a favorable fiscal position. To escape the crisis, Germany used rapid export growth especially to meet voracious Chinese demand.

With rebalancing will come a decline in China s surplus saving, much slower accumulation of foreign exchange reserves, and a concomitant reduction in its seemingly voracious demand for dollar denominated assets. Curtailing purchases of US Treasuries is a perfectly logical outgrowth of this process.

Of course, exports have also slowed, given sluggish growth in the rest of the world. Commodity exporters such as Australia, Indonesia, and Brazil have already felt the effects of slowing Chinese growth, as have countries, such as Germany and Switzerland, that depend on satisfying China s voracious demand for capital intensive goods.

In economic terms, high commodity prices fueled strong growth in South America in 2011, and the modest US recovery benefited nearby countries. In Chile, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, and, to a lesser extent, Brazil and Colombia, voracious Chinese and Indian demand for raw materials and food boosted foreign reserves, enabled heavy government spending, and sustained high levels of imports.

Yet such investment will not be financed easily its return depends on a still elusive carbon price and will often materialize only in the long run, while improving energy efficiency implies replacing hundreds of millions of outdated vehicles and refitting hundreds of millions of energy voracious buildings. Adequate financing instruments are required for the right purpose at the right place and at the right scale.

Then there is the Bay of Bengal, where Chinese infrastructure investment is set to transform the backward Myanmar seaside town of Kyaukpyu and the surrounding region by tapping offshore gas fields and constructing a pipeline to Yunnan Province in southern China. These initiatives reflect not only China s voracious drive for natural resources and new trade routes, but also Myanmar s own plans to create a mini Singapore within its borders.

Salmon are carnivorous, however, and to feed the voracious appetite of these legions of farm raised fish, the aquaculture industry increasingly has turned its attention to a small crustacean commonly known as Antarctic krill. But that s bad news for leopard seals and Adelie penguins, humpback and blue whales, and many other species, because most organisms in the Antarctic marine ecosystem eat either krill or something that eats krill.

China was quick to benefit from an export led economic model that was critically dependent on America as its largest source of demand. The US gained by turning to China for low cost goods that helped income constrained consumers make ends meet it also imported surplus savings from China to fill the void of an unprecedented shortfall of domestic saving, with the deficit prone US drawing freely on China s voracious appetite for Treasury securities.