Sentences with phrase «dwindling resource on»

Set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships.

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I refer to the large spectrum of challenges that we now associate with ecology — world population, food supply, pollution, dwindling supplies of nonrenewable natural resources, and so on.

When it got to the turn of the Council of Elders, the regional chair spoke, Hon Hackman spoke, I spoke and I spoke on the economy, but you don't talk about the economy by starting with the resource location;... I started by talking about how poorly this economy has been managed that we have gone from GHS9.4 bn debt to GHS110bn debt at the time, and how growth, without oil, was 1.9 bn and had dwindled to about 4 % etc.,... And I said something which I've said in this room: that Ghana is not poor and that the resource base of this country is found in five regions and I mentioned the regions specifically because I was making a strong economic argument.

In the years since he took his stance on HIV, he has seen his resources dwindle, but he has also been cut loose from the strings that come with public funding.

WAR ON BUGS Attempts 50 years ago to conquer disease - carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes (larvae shown) in the United States failed, largely due to dwindling resources and America's resistance to pesticides in a post — Silent Spring world.

«On a planet with a population growing at exponential rates and resources dwindling, we're almost in a state of emergency on a timeline measured in decades,» Trent saiOn a planet with a population growing at exponential rates and resources dwindling, we're almost in a state of emergency on a timeline measured in decades,» Trent saion a timeline measured in decades,» Trent said.

The pioneering program combines face - to - face and distance - learning techniques and draws on CLG's experiences in West Clermont and in a second district in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that is working to reverse high dropout rates, raise flagging test scores, and make the best possible use of dwindling resources.

As the pressure to expand charter schools continues to mount, and the budgetary health of local districts continues to decline, teachers, administrators, parents, and activists on both sides of the charter school divide are facing off over a dwindling resource: money.

Surviving without electricity and dwindling sustainable resources, the organization was forced to rely on dedicated foster families to care for many of their dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens until the power was restored.

That changes the rhythm of the game considerably, increasing the emphasis on resource - gathering throughout the match so that you've got plenty of materials to build cover and fortify as the player count dwindles.

Taking place three years after the end of the story missions that occur during Phantasy Star Universe, the denizens of the Gurhal System have dispatched the menace of the SEED — but the war effort has cost them, and with dwindling resources the game's heroes will travel & take on entirely new challenges.

When the paper described scenario A as continuing the present emissions growth, with the only caveat being that it must «eventually» be on the high side of reality as resources dwindle, most people, including myself who has an engineering degree, would understand that scenario A was the emission path that the world was then following.

Scientists say such energy - saving efforts could contribute to an even bigger environmental problem by adding pressure on North American's dwindling water resources.

Our species is the most successful ever, still growing in numbers and absorbing more and more natural resources for its industrial metabolism, which is largely based on fossil fuels and other dwindling stocks.

Once we do have that information, we could for example determine fairly the actual damages of failing to privatize earlier accruing to those Free Riders whose sales are contingent on getting free access to a dwindling resource.

UNECE: The Third workshop on water and climate change in transboundary basins: Making adaptation work will bring together more than 140 participants from all over the world on 25 and 26 April 2012 in Geneva to discuss how to prevent conflict in transboundary basins over dwindling water resources by cooperating at the transboundary level in [continue reading...]

If other companies were to ensure by - products were fed into the supply chain of other industries — for example by using waste products to generate energy — we would see a big positive impact on climate change, pollution and the Earth's dwindling resources.

Perhaps by focusing on what really matters to Americans — a high quality of life including the basics in food and shelter, strong relationships with others, rewarding experiences and good health, we'll drastically reduce our consumption of fossil fuels and other dwindling resources.

And if the asteroids don't get us, there's always the melting polar ice caps, loss of animal life, dwindling physical resources, and other grim scenarios that we seem hell - bent on achieving.

Poor people, who often depend more immediately on natural resources and are less able to compete for dwindling supplies, bear the heaviest burden.

The rub is that trusts lean heavily on public dollars — a dwindling resource.