Sentences with phrase «energy needs of humanity»

There is an abundance of reports focusing on the energy needs of humanity and the sustainability of mass action, but relatively little acknowledgement of the upsides of present cities as a way for allowing large populations to live in some comfort.

He focuses on the basics of the science, with a dollop of economics, and leaves off the super wicked questions related to satisfying the energy needs of humanity through its current growth spurt without overheating climate.

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«By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperiled biosphere.»

We need the control of atomic energy for constructive ends, lest civilization and perhaps humanity itself cease to exist upon earth.

The sun is a virtually limitless source of clean energy, beaming down enough on Earth in an hour to meet humanity's needs for a year.

The sun blasts Earth with enough energy in one hour — 4.3 x 1020 joules — to provide all of humanity's energy needs for a year (4.1 x 1020 joules), according to physicist Steven Chu, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Humanity must become aware of the urgent need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources to avoid the catastrophic scenario of using coal as an energy source as well as to replace the current model of development for sustainable development, which, by reverse logistics, with the reuse, recovery and recycling of materials, thus reaching the so - called closed production cycle, could delay the exhaustion of natural resources of the planet Earth.

The task on emissions is twofold — to bend the curve of gas releases using regulations, incentives, education and standards, but (more importantly, to me) also to build the intellectual infrastructure and innovative, globally - collaborative culture that will be required for the next generation to take that curve down toward zero even as humanity's energy needs continue to rise.

On energy, there is an entirely different span of views, and far more agreement that humanity doesn't have the choices it needs for a smooth ride in this century.

«[b] y failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperilled biosphere.»

Using both uranium and thorium reserves, all of humanity will have all the pollution free energy we would ever need for 11.2 billion years.

A path - breaking analysis published in the Harvard Law and Policy Review that documents the radical improvements to low - carbon technologies needed to meet humanity's growing energy needs and the kinds of policies needed to secure them.

All of this would take tremendous energy and materials — ironically frontloading carbon emissions just when they most need to be reduced — and expand humanity's total ecological impact significantly in the short term.

But those Critical on Wind Power also realize the following: Humanity needs 426.000.000.000.000.000 BTU of energy per year and obtains it for about 50 % burning that dirty coal!

This topic connects with the question of a zero -[energy]- growth economy, which we ultimately need to be truly sustainable — and which humanity really has apparently only barely begun to think about.