Sentences with phrase «fuel addiction as»

This has done enormous harm through climate change and ocean acidification as well as air pollution that kills millions of people world wide each year so we must kick the fossil fuel addiction as quickly as possible.

And it is and will be very difficult for us, particularly here in North America, to confront our fossil fuel addiction as well as lessen our impact on the climate more generally, individually and also as a society as a whole.

Not exact matches

Will governments, investors and green - minded consumers, who put their faith in the sun's power to help wean us off our fossil - fuel addiction, back away from another technology that promised too much — in jobs and profits as much as in renewable energy — and failed to deliver?

We are as consumed by human approval as we have ever been, and this addiction is fuelled by a world of instant reaction.

Abuse of the prescription painkillers, such as Vicodin or OxyContin, has fueled the need to address an epidemic of addiction and overdose linked to the legal drugs and their illegal cousin, heroin.

Huber offers insight on not only the number of people battling drug addiction and the amount of money that is involved with fueling addiction, but also what can be done to ensure proper treatment is available to addicts, as well as what needs to be done to help reduce the addiction numbers in Chautauqua County.

Photographer J. Henry Fair has documented the landscapes left behind by the industrial processes that feed the world's fossil - fuel addiction — as well as many of the necessities and luxuries of modern life that energy makes possible, from plastics to paper towels.

Fermenting the sugars in the country's abundant sugar cane produced a motor fuel that lowered carbon dioxide emissions, and many saw Brazil as a model for how the world could shed its addiction to oil, creating jobs along the way.

A case has been made that the absence of effective governmental leadership is related to the effect of special interests on policy, as well as to public relations efforts by organizations that profit from the public's addiction to fossil fuels [237], [250].

For instance, sugary foods are an immediate supply of energy for both the brain and body but refined sugars lead to food addiction and altered brain chemistry if left as the sustaining fuel.

It is so gratifying to see a project I have spent 25 years creating fuel the same obsession, inspiration and addiction in the public as it does in me.

As we get to know them better, we discover that it isn't necessarily sex addiction that fuels their behavior, but a deeper series of fears and hang - ups.

Little did she know that she would later look back on that day as a pivotal event in her life, fueling what would later develop into a full - blown addiction to soulful eyes, scruffy fur and canine kisses.

I am happy to look at other ideas and approaches from either party --- as long they seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels.

«Society needs to wean itself from the addiction to fossil fuels as quickly as possible,» Howarth said.

The Lieberman - Warner American Climate InSecurity Act (A-CISA) has, as its core centerpiece, a poorly structured Cap and Trade program, inadequate for achieiving required reductions in US (and Global) GreenHouse Gase (GHG) emissions while giving away $ 500 billion (and likely more) to serial polluters, making the task of reducing America's fossil - fuel addiction that much more costly -LSB-...]

As another MSNBC commentator, Chris Hayes, points out, the stance of Obama and others, that they are against global warming but for the building of new pipelines, are the protestations of fossil fuel addicts, who haven't yet confronted their addiction.

As to «addiction'to fossil fuels and breaking it, you first.

A case has been made that the absence of effective governmental leadership is related to the effect of special interests on policy, as well as to public relations efforts by organizations that profit from the public's addiction to fossil fuels [237], [250].

Indeed, corn is not the optimal basis for providing all the ethanol fuel we will need, but, as the President says, biofuels are needed to reduce our addiction to oil and to slow climate change — and the emerging biofuels market is spurring major investments in using biomass other than corn to make ethanol.

If the tariff I'm suggesting helps to get some thinking going about fossil fuel addiction, then it may be useful in that manner as well and not just in making our farmers whole.

Factory Farmed Fuel Not Solution to Fossil Fuel Addiction The big essential problem here (apart from financials, we'll leave that aside) is this: Even though this fuel is utilizing waste products, something normally considered a good thing, that waste is generated by factory farming, something at least as bad — both statistically in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution and ethically in terms of animal welfare — as the fossil fuels being replaFuel Not Solution to Fossil Fuel Addiction The big essential problem here (apart from financials, we'll leave that aside) is this: Even though this fuel is utilizing waste products, something normally considered a good thing, that waste is generated by factory farming, something at least as bad — both statistically in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution and ethically in terms of animal welfare — as the fossil fuels being replaFuel Addiction The big essential problem here (apart from financials, we'll leave that aside) is this: Even though this fuel is utilizing waste products, something normally considered a good thing, that waste is generated by factory farming, something at least as bad — both statistically in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution and ethically in terms of animal welfare — as the fossil fuels being replafuel is utilizing waste products, something normally considered a good thing, that waste is generated by factory farming, something at least as bad — both statistically in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution and ethically in terms of animal welfare — as the fossil fuels being replaced.

Both our fossil fuel addiction and our growing meat addiction as manifested in factory farms need to be addressed collectively.

As if an entire country, culture, history and language are logical externalities of our fossil fuel addiction.

I agree that for drugs, as for fossil fuels, limiting demand (or overcoming addiction) is more effective than limiting supply and I said as much in my final paragraph.

If a person is unsure about who they are on a physiological level as it relates to their addiction and not clear about how they have been living their life then what we call an, «identity disturbance», that they are living will fuel their addiction process and vice versa.

As part of an individualized treatment plan, CBT is used with patients as a way to help them identify self - defeating behaviors and thoughts which can often fuel addictioAs part of an individualized treatment plan, CBT is used with patients as a way to help them identify self - defeating behaviors and thoughts which can often fuel addictioas a way to help them identify self - defeating behaviors and thoughts which can often fuel addiction.

Reactive behaviors such as addiction can also fuel anxiety.

Frustration and resentment often fuel anger and fear toward the addicted family member, causing rifts and distrust to grow... As family members of people in active addiction or early recovery, the path to a healthier life is strewn with hurdles and barriers.