Sentences with phrase «global energy consumption just»

«It's a substantial cut to global energy consumption just by having a way to integrate lasers and photonic circuits with silicon.»

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Second is what I call global flattening, which is really just my shorthand for the rise of middle classes all across the world in bigger numbers than ever before from China to Brazil to India to Russia; middle classes that increasingly have the kind of energy and consumption patterns, demands, and aspirations of Americans; and at the same time, global crowding — global population growth.

... when it comes to the real - world consequences of those scientific findings, specifically the kind of deep changes required not just to our energy consumption but to the underlying logic of our economic system, the crowd gathered at the Marriott Hotel may be in considerably less denial than a lot of professional environmentalists, the ones who paint a picture of global warming Armageddon, then assure us that we can avert catastrophe by buying «green» products and creating clever markets in pollution.

I agree that we need to cut unrenewable energy consumption, but when I saw that chart them years ago, I realized that we are in a cooler era in our history, just coming out of a mini ice - age, and that periods of global warming and cooling have been taking place longer than we've been around to notice it.

Energy expert Michael Levi at the Council on Foreign Relations has found that if we wanted to meet that two - degree target (and since just one degree is already causing havoc, we sure should), global gas consumption would have to peak as early as 2020.