Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel resources first»

Industry extracts the lowest - cost, highest - quality, least emissions - intensive fossil fuel resources first.

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Mr. Dickson wrote passionately about several areas in climate science that troubled him, including: first, the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, caused by humans, and a threat; second, the idea that government agencies had manipulated temperature records to fit a narrative of warming; and third, that China is developing its coal resources so fast that nothing short of radical population control will save us, if burning fossil fuels really does cause global warming.

Pacificorp, in its 2017 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) Update — sent out on May 1, has for the first time not included new fossil fuels as a «least cost, least risk» rResource Plan (IRP) Update — sent out on May 1, has for the first time not included new fossil fuels as a «least cost, least risk» resourceresource.

First, a developed or developing country's economic success is based on its ability to continually expand, which can't happen unless fossil fuel consumption and resource depletion continually expand.

In addition to starting the process to become the first low carbon diocese, replacing the existing energy sources with renewable ones such as solar, the diocese has undertaken not to invest its resources in funds that finance projects with fossil fuels.

Driving his work are two main convictions: 1) Our current environmental problems — climate change, biodiversity losses, peak fossil fuels, natural resource over consumption — are but symptoms of the greater problem of fetishizing material economic growth; and 2) only by first changing our minds, recognized the literal and metaphorical interconnected nature of all life, will we make the lasting external changes required to create an ecologically sustainable civilization.

In the early twenty - first century, with its very high rates of fossil fuel production, the scale of depletion, particularly of oil and gas resources, creates a particular predicament here.