Sentences with phrase «current rates of consumption»

At current rate of consumption, we have only 60 years left.

Globally, the hydrates may contain 700,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas — enough to power the United States for 1,000 years at current rates of consumption.

Still, the figure offers a hint at the extent of the world's reserves: more than all the petroleum ever consumed — roughly 830 billion barrels — and enough to fuel the world for some 60 years at current rates of consumption.

Today, due to the current rate of consumption, the demand for natural resources exceeds 41 % spare capacity of the Earth.

The current rate of consumption is a threat to the future prosperity of mankind.

That is why, for example, energy has become cheaper according to various metrics — most notably, the number of hours a worker must labor in order to obtain objective amounts of energy — and even the «number of years remaining at current rates of consumption» have risen for certain energy sources, despite their finite nature.

Firewood has a roll to play in providing an alternative energy source to petroleum, but, while it is a renewable resource, it is quite impossible to grow enough firewood to replace petroleum at current rates of consumption.

World petroleum supplies, at the current rate of consumption, won't last a baby born today past his / her 40th birthday.

Many believe the current rate of consumption won't stay constant but will rise into the future, shortening that 40 year period.

People are willfully uninformed and latching onto anything — climate denial, left wing conspiracies — that will justify and help perpetuate their current rate of consumption and affluence.

The Powder River Basin field alone contains about a thousand years supply at current rates of consumption.