Sentences with phrase «environmental limits»

«There are critical environmental limits to resource - dependent economic growth,» the authors state.

We human beings can surpass any local environmental limits and we choose to do so.

Population and Consumption: the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management sets out its position on the importance of addressing current levels of population growth, resource consumption and moving towards living within environmental limits in the UK.

Jennifer Grant of the Pembina Institute brought a startling perspective, citing the pace and scale of tar sands development in the absence of environmental limits.

2007/04/17: TehranTimes: China's economy reaching environmental limits China's booming economy is being increasingly constrained by shortages of energy and natural resources as well as environmental concerns — forcing the nation to seek a more efficient growth model.

Proposing that science itself can define the global environmental limits of human development is simultaneously unrealistic, hubristic, and a strategy doomed to fail.

a Build the adaptive capacity of smallholders to the long - term impacts of climate change and ensure agricultural policies address food security and take into account environmental limits, carrying capacity, equity and social issues, particularly gender equity.

A new runway at Heathrow and additional terminal capacity should be delivered as soon as possible after the new runway at Stansted — within the 2015 - 2020 period — «but only if stringent environmental limits can be met.»

Gases from the plant will be processed to remove dangerous compounds like dioxins, and the company pledges that emissions will be well under state and federal environmental limits.

Given that our populations are going to be huge and sustained, it is imperative to focus not on environmental limits to populations, but on the real social and technological opportunities we have to enable both humanity and nature to thrive in the face of some very real challenges.

Of course, whole books can and have been written about the flawed decisions that emanate from our collective willingness of prioritize GDP and the need to establish economic metrics that better account for environmental limits and quality of life.

Undaunted, the environmental movement merely deferred the date of eco-tastrophe further into the future, and made an ethic out of life within presumed environmental limits — «sustainability».

The real claim of environmentalism — its ethics — is not merely that we must protect the environment, but that we should live within environmental limits.

Revkin, who runs The New York Times» Dot Earth blog, has been writing about population for years, often in the context of environmental limits and resource scarcity.

Everything that has happened since then, including the greenhouse effect and the hole in the ozone layer, makes it clear that a future world could not sustain a population of even the present number at a higher level of industrial development without reaching environmental limits.

«We examined international relationships between the sustainability of resource use and the achievement of social goals, and found that basic needs, such as nutrition, sanitation, and the elimination of extreme poverty, could most likely be achieved in all countries without exceeding global environmental limits,» said Daniel O'Neill, who directs the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds in the UK.

The counter arguments that the demographic transition will take care of population size growth and that we can technologize and public manage our way through environmental limits are probably valid.

What we need is a greater understanding of the environmental limits which most certainly exist regarding human intervention into nature.

The acceptance of these environmental limits may not guarantee us an equitable distribution of society's wealth, but — and this is the crucial point — the idea of balance and environmental limits offers the prospect of a more just society.

Always keeping in mind the environmental limits, we put ourselves on the side of life rather than death, among other reasons, so that all of us will have the chance to satisfy the basic necessities: work, food, home, health, education.

The FCRN's vision is for a nutrition - driven, ethically mindful food system that sits within environmental limits.

They identified 10 environmental limits we might not want to transgress in the Anthropocene: aerosol pollution; biodiversity loss; chemical pollution; climate change; freshwater use; changes in land use (forests to fields, for example); nitrogen and phosphorus cycles; ocean acidity; and the ozone hole.

That's because human ingenuity — such as the modern breeding of staple crops, such as wheat, for higher yields, known as the Green Revolution — has outpaced, so far, environmental limits.

The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate.

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Societal collapses due to populations reaching «environmental limits» are not the norm (social failures and epidemic disease are; Butzer 2012.

The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safely operate.

This would mean that schools, hospitals, commerce, houses and industry would not be able to release any emissions if the UK and the EU are to stay within environmental limits.

Environmental Limits and Swiss Footprints Based on Planetary Boundaries.