Sentences with phrase «atmosphere as a waste dump»

Rather than articulating the need to phase out technologies that use that atmosphere as a waste dump, the PCAST report recommends the expansion of a natural gas industry whose existence depends on us allowing them to pollute our skies.

We can only increase energy supply while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions if new power plants turn away from using the atmosphere as a waste dump.

While there will be no single technological silver bullet, the time has come for those who take the threat of global warming seriously to embrace the development and deployment of safer nuclear power systems as one among several technologies that will be essential to any credible effort to develop an energy system that does not rely on using the atmosphere as a waste dump.

To a first approximation, if we emit greenhouse gases half as rapidly as we do today, we will wind up in the same place but it will take us twice as long to get there.Economists estimate that it might cost something like 2 % of our GDP to convert our energy system into one that does not use the atmosphere as a waste dump.

Economists estimate that it might cost something like 2 % of our GDP to convert our energy system into one that does not use the atmosphere as a waste dump.

Would we like it today if the Romans had developed a modern technological society like ours, and their scientists told them that using the atmosphere as a waste dump for greenhouse gases would melt the ice caps, acidify the oceans, overheat the tropics, cause species extinctions, etc, and then they decided to go ahead and do it anyway, just because they were selfish and didn't care about other people?

They want nuclear energy plants to be immediately competitive with highly refined, large scale coal plants that have been granted free access to the world's shared atmosphere as a waste dump.

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«To save coral reefs, we need to transform our energy system into one that does not use the atmosphere and oceans as waste dumps for carbon dioxide pollution.

If we are to live on this planet for the long haul without transforming it into what seems like an entirely different planet, we will need to come to the understanding that we can no longer use the atmosphere as a dumping ground for the waste products of modern industrial civilization.

The mind - set of those who dump rubbish on road - sides is, I believe, similar to the mind - set of the corporations that dump waste gasses such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere causing climate change and ocean acidification — and of the governments that allow it to happen.

We benefit now from using cheap and abundant fossil fuels, and we use the atmosphere as a free dump for the waste products.