Sentences with phrase «carbon waste»

At the most fundamental level, the ecological footprint incorporates six measurements — city cover, carbon dioxide pollution, farm fields, fisheries, forests and rangeland — to reveal «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystem goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon waste.»

Powered by fusion, the carbon waste of the Industrial Age supplies energy for the Diamond Age.

Another interpretation is that, beyond fossil - carbon waste, the EF is a poor representation of how well we are managing the planet, because a wide range of studies indicate that harm to Earth's ecosystem services is already significant, including declining soil fertility, increasing water scarcity, lowering of groundwater tables, oft - depleted fisheries, and loss of evolutionary history through species and population extinctions [22]--[26].

The first account, the ecological footprint of consumption, is an estimate of the renewable biological resources required for consumption by a specified human population and for assimilation of its carbon wastes.

Their company buys and sells the high - sulfur, high - carbon waste to places, usually overseas, where it is burned as fuel.

Right now, it's still too easy for any of us to dump our carbon waste into the world's atmosphere.

-- Finally, if the coming years of experiments, which start next year, are successful, a truly limitless supply of clean electrical energy with no carbon waste would be created using the limitless hydrogen fuel in the world's oceans.