Sentences with phrase «about resource scarcity»

Concerns about resource scarcity and its impact on future economic growth also began appearing at this time.

The people who claimed to be concerned about resource scarcity from overpopulation opposed nuclear precisely because it put an end to scarcity.

Not exact matches

Rather than inefficiently dictating how to use a resource from the top, this approach allows those in the trenches to make the best decisions with ample information about the scarcity and value of the key commodity — time.

Today, as the global population faces more serious challenges — from resource scarcity to concerns about income inequality and education — companies around the world are committing themselves to creating a profit while also defining their broader contribution to society.

Cloning, anti-aging technology, human / mechanical intertwining, basic discoveries of science pushing god further into a gap, resource scarcity, will all make for some very interesting conversations about population control, pregnancy and abortion in the coming centuries.

It's not about scarcity of resources for me — it's just that I'm clumsy right now.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, on Wednesday, said regardless of the federal government's effort to end the ongoing fuel scarcity across the country, queues might not disappear from filling stations until about two months.

«If you are an egalitarian person, who is concerned about the division of resources between racial groups, the mention of scarcity might actually make you want to give more to protect racial minority group members,» Krosch said.

The report is candid about the scarcity of new funds and says that agencies will have to reevaluate how they allocate their resources.

Economic terms students will learn about while playing include: deflation, embargo, exports, GDP, GDP per capita, globalization, hyperinflation, imports, inflation, monopoly, protectionism, quota, resources, scarcity, standards, subsidies, surplus, tariff, trade barrier, and trade deal.

Andy, I realized this week that while I've been talking with a lot of scientists over the past year about the signs that our global economic resources are running out, sharp price rises for commodities being one, that I've never heard it mentioned in the popular press that scarcity could be caused by using things up.

I felt this perspective switch was important during the scarcity session, because only a small group — about 15 percent of people in the session of 45 — believed resources were fundamentally constrained (e.g., earth is finite).

The real estate collapse, the economic downturn, and the growing scarcity of resources, have caused a sea change in thinking about shelter.

Revkin, who runs The New York Times» Dot Earth blog, has been writing about population for years, often in the context of environmental limits and resource scarcity.