Sentences with phrase «fuel resource depletion»

In spite of my disagreement with Webby on the linking of AGW and fossil fuel resource depletion, the US policies seem generally geared towards lowering fossil fuel use for economic reasons not climate related.

Not exact matches

Maybe algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million vehicles via fuel cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.

I also calculated the depletion rate of fossil fuels, assuming that the current 8 billion tons discharged into the atmosphere represents the total loss per year of this resource (possibly overly optimistic).

Unfortunately, fossil fuels are so abundant that resource depletion is not going to make them too expensive to use, so that emissions fall in time (indeed, resource depletion of oil this side of 2050 will mean coal and gas will be used for synthetic fuels - pushing emissions up even faster that I think the IEA recognise).

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It is driving the rapid depletion of fossil fuel resources with a dramatic increase in associated emissions and consequent climate change; it is accelerating the loss of biodiversity and widespread extinction of species; it is intensifying the growing shortage of fresh water to meet human needs.

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.

I try to remind people their one area of concern is not enough to create sustainable solutions so they need to study resource depletion (all of them, not just fuels and energy), climate, sustainable governance, and the nature of collapse.

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.

Depleting fossil fuel reserves, depleting mineral reserves, widespread devastation of eco systems, depletion of biodiversity, acidification of oceans, dwindling fresh water resources, food production to food demand ratio becoming more acute, and of course the primary driver for all of the above continued increase in the world's population.