Sentences with phrase «billions of people on the planet live»

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More than 1 billion people on our planet live on less than the buying power of $ 1.25...

It's called the Moral Law and you know it and I know it and every one of the 7 billion people on this planet and who ever lived knows it and that is NOT fantasy.

They don't understand that many religious people, including the Pope, have no problem whatsoever with a 14 billion year old universe full of life evolved on a million planets.

(1) to accept the ambiguity of such a high number of humans on the planet; (2) to stabilize that population as much as possible, and then (3) to find ways of allowing six to eleven billion people to live on the planet in ways that are ecologically wise.

And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.

And it won't be possible for 8 to 10 billion people on the planet to celebrate a high quality of life if we deplete all the resources in a flawed cradle - to - grave system.

Questions about how massive stars function, the possibility of life on other planets, human significance, and human resourcefulness are inevitably broached, and people must consider what these topics might say about the purpose of billions of stars, the relationship between humans and non-human species, and limits of science.

And the vegans seem to be the most aligned with environmental demands, while the Paleo folks bury their heads in the sand and try to pretend we're not living in the 21st century on a planet of 7 billion people.

Out of 7.6 billion people living on this planet, you chose each other to do life with.

«There are seven billion people on this planet and they come from all walks of life.

Those billions will be seeking food, water and other resources on a planet where people are already shaping climate and the web of life.

The world needs more of this kind of cross-sectoral collaboration to address the myriad environmental and societal challenges ahead, enabling 10 billion people to live well on a healthy planet by 2050.

While this is undoubtedly great news, nine billion people at the end of the century aspiring to live like the richest billion of us do today will place huge additional demands on the planet's resources.

«I attended Ian Dunlop's talk at the Engineers Australia's Sustainable Engergy Society and it was a wake up call that every Australian has to be proactive in addressing the climate emergency that we are now in and that threatens to destroy life on the planet for billions of people if we continue «business as usual».

And our high standard of living is coveted by billions of people on the planet.

Of course it could if we are content to live the lifestyle of the 1.8 billion people on the planet that do not have electricitOf course it could if we are content to live the lifestyle of the 1.8 billion people on the planet that do not have electricitof the 1.8 billion people on the planet that do not have electricity.

Those include recognizing three realities: first that billions of people are on an irreversible course toward living something that looks like a modern life, replete with the choices, comfort, and security that those of us in the rich world take for granted; second, that everyone on the planet and billions more likely to come can and should follow that path if they choose it; and third, that achieving that outcome while limiting global temperatures to something likely above two degrees but well below the business - as - usual scenario will require developing zero - carbon technologies capable of powering that world.

Looking ahead at the accelerating energy demands of the future, no single clean technology — not wind, not solar, not nuclear power — can meet the future energy needs of more than seven billion people living on our planet.

As Eban Goodstein, Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, so aptly shared immediately following the election, «Our work will not go away... Meeting the needs of billions of more people all aspiring to a better quality of life demands that we still rewire the world with clean energy, still reinvent the global food system, still rebuild smart and inclusive cities, and fundamentally, put sustainability and sufficiency at the heart of what we are doing on the planet.

Not only is the practice not sustainable, but trends suggest that by 2050, 2.5 billion more people will live on the planet, 80 percent of them will live in cities and 70 percent more food will be required.