Sentences with phrase «environmental constraints on»

From the activities of the Koch brothers lobbying octopus in opposing any environmental constraints on business, to the vast subsidies the oil industry maintains even as profits are at record levels, to dirty tricks lobbying against meaningful climate action.

«Many of these alternatives, such as nuclear power and geoengineering, are likely to convey cultural resonances that affirm rather than threaten hierarchical and individualist confidence in the power of human ingenuity to overcome environmental constraints on economic production.»

However, recent regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act threaten to upend the competitive markets that guarantee just and reasonable wholesale rates in many parts of the U.S. Those organized wholesale markets are based on using the least - cost generation to satisfy demand, whereas the EPA continues to impose tighter and more complex environmental constraints on the electricity generation sector.

It seems likely that environmental constraints on economic growth will dominate world politics for the foreseeable future.

But I get the impression that many of the critics are simply having a knee - jerk reaction to any environmental constraint on the free market.

Not exact matches

But space posed a unique design constraint on Stearns: solar radiation and extreme environmental temperature shifts would melt and degrade the paint and ink he worked with, making them hazards to the delicate optical hardware in the satellites.

Once again they can only explain away by appeal to another principle of order: for example, the neo-Darwinian argument that life on earth only seems to be teleological «because of environmental and molecular constraints on the direction of change» (from the online Wikipedia entry for «orthogenesis»).

@transframer — With all due respect, you didn't really address the issues raised regarding: 1) actual # of extant vertebrate species; 2) the fact that land inverts «breath air» and would have drowned if not accounted for on the ark; 3) that the dino genera identified in the wiki link far exceeds 50; 4) the need to account for extinct land vertebrates in addition to those still around; 5) that many marine fish would have died as their habitat's salinity dropped; 6) that your % allotments for food / water don't reflect the fact that many forms require fresh meat and / or eat disproportionately to their sizes; 7) the specific dietary / environmental constraints involved in the migration to the Ark and the return trips from Mt. Ararat.

Similarly, the environmental / social dimension discloses external constraints on practice, pressing us to be realistic about the impact of mutual regard on social existence.

Ms Beer said proceeding with the recovery of further 450GL environmental water and the Constraint Management Strategy was not based on evidence.

This aims to encourage community discussion and feedback on the use of environmental water, to identify future opportunities and recognise operational risks and constraints.

The final volume of water recovered for the environment is dependent on the outcome of two work programs that may either increase or decrease the surface water sustainable diversion limits; one to remove river system constraints and the other to improve the efficiency of environmental water delivery.

Depending on river operating rules, flow constraints, and climatic conditions, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder can agree to:

easing or removing constraints on the ability to deliver environmental water to the environmental assets of the Murray - Darling Basin ($ 200 million currently allocated).

The authors suggest that this indicates that environmental conditions place constraints on these types of traits, limiting the degree to which they can reflect quality or be used for social interaction.

Their numbers and occurrence will change depending on environmental constraints.

«Going forward we will need much more precise constraints on the magnitude of oxygenation and the physiological requirements of early animals to continue testing the impact of oxygenation on Cambrian animal life,» said Erik Sperling, an assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University, and first author on the paper.

Scenario A, since it is exponential, must eventually be on the high side of reality in view of finite resource constraints and environmental concerns, even though the growth of emissions in scenario A (~ 1.5 % / yr) is less than the rate typical of the past century (~ 4 % / yr).

If Dr. Hansen never imagined Scenario A as being a real possibility for the next 20 years, I guess indicated by his description «Scenario A, since it is exponential, must eventually be on the high side of reality in view of finite resource constraints and environmental concerns, even though the growth of emissions in Scenario A (~ 1.5 % yr - 1) is less than the rate typical of the past century (~ 4 % yr - 1)» then his subsequent comment (PNAS, 2001) «Second, the IPCC includes CO2 growth rates that we contend are unrealistically large» seems to indicate that Dr. Hansen doesn't support some of the more extreme SRES scenarios.

But on the other hand we have stringent constraints on natural resources and environmental quality.

For the energy sector, constraints on water can challenge the reliability of existing operations as well as the physical, economic and environmental viability of future projects.

Scenario A, since it is exponential, must eventually be on the high side of reality in view of finite resource constraints and environmental concerns, even though the growth of emissions in Scenario A (~ 1 `.5 % per year) is less than the rate typical of the past century (~ 4 % per year).

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

On top of this large natural climate variability, California's water supply system is notoriously convoluted and subject to a bewildering array of environmental, legal, political, and usage constraints.

The focus is on small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which often face particular constraints and challenges in responding to the environmental imperative.

He noted that there aren't any real constraints on fossil fuels — the only limitation on future energy use will be the environmental impact (i.e. global warming).

Of course, they do go on to explain that if one factors in environmental and economic constraints not covered by their opposition, then the difference drops to just 1.8 times higher.

Yet we also impose crucial constraints on environmental exploitation for commercial gain, and we need the same for privacy.

Architects are involved throughout the construction process of buildings by effectively adapting their plans based on client needs, environmental factors, and budget constraints.