Sentences with phrase «global resource depletion»

«Humanist Values» and «UN founded Human Rights» that would see the natural eradication of all nuclear weapons in every nation being the only sane and rational thing to urgently achieve alongside solutions to climate change and global resource depletion.

The ecological limits of the planet are now in clear view, as expressed by the combination of climate change, peak oil (the end of the era of cheap energy), and overall global resource depletion and extinctions.

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I should also note a thrust of my Leadership and the Environment keynote is that although I support science, education, innovation, and the approaches to reducing pollution, resource depletion, overpopulation, global warming, and our other environmental problems, I believe we need leadership in the style of Martin Luther King Junior, Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, Mohandas Gandhi, and so on.

Pollution, resource depletion, extinctions, global warming, and other problems with our inventive, needy culture implies we may have based our culture on counterproductive values.

These founders have witnessed the consequences of unfettered capitalism, and it isn't a pretty picture: global warming, pollution, income inequality, environmental degradation, and resource depletion.

Fast depletion of natural resources, pollution of air, land and water, the global warming and other atmosphere changes have catastrophic affects.

Organic agriculture counteracts resource depletion (soil, water, energy, nutrients), contributes positively to the problems associated with climate change and desertification and can help to maintain and enhance biodiversity at a global scale.

«The most significant environmental impacts for all three nappy systems were on resource depletion, acidification and global warming,» the authors concluded.

Jumeau said he thinks signing a global climate change accord that keeps countries like his safe from the threat of rising seas and addresses the resource depletion that military leaders say help foster extremism would do the same.

Keywords: sustainable development, the threat of global economic crisis, the threat of depletion of natural resources, the threat of uncontrolled growth of cities, the threat of global climate change.

Another threat is represented by the depletion of natural resources of the planet, the uncontrolled growth of cities and the catastrophic global climate change.

Another threat, environmental, is represented by the depletion of natural resources of the planet, the uncontrolled growth of cities and the catastrophic global climate change that tends to produce serious impact on economic activities and increased social problems of mankind.

A ban follows from the 1) accelerating impacts of global warming, 2) the accelerating depletion, due now to demand and soon depletion, of the petroleum resource, and 3) oil wars such as that in Iraq.

Distorting subsidies not only do damage economic now, they strangle any possibility of dealing logically with new challenges like resource depletion and global warming.

It's a global compact signed on a voluntary basis by Local and Regional Authorities willing to adapt their water infrastructure and services to the emerging challenges they are increasingly facing such as climate change, rapid urban growth, depletion and pollution of water resources or ageing infrastructure.

These are human responses to big existential threats to the biosphere and ultimately Homo sapiens itself, including global warming, natural resource depletion, the 6th mass extinction and the destruction of marine ecosystems.

This analytical document demonstrates that the current global energy system raises a wide array of concerns ranging from resource depletion and technological development to environmental impacts.

The report details the complexity of nanotechnology and demonstrates that current uses fail to deliver benefits for global warming, resource depletion and pollution, but instead increase energy use and create environmental risks.

The Oil Depletion Protocol: is a global framework for distributing the world's remaining oil reserves more equitably than free market forces would allow, to avoid resource wars, profiteering and economic collapse.

This annual event highlights food production, resource depletion, population, pollution, energy, poverty and the global economy.

The global environment and economic security are indelibly intertwined, with increasing greenhouse gases, environmental degradation and natural - resource depletion putting sustainable growth and existing business models at risk.

However, it is an important driver of other environmental impacts including global warming, acidification, eutrophication and resource depletion.

Ozone depletion Acid rain Global warming / greenhouse effect Population Trends / most problematic topic Questions the legitimacy / relations between various peoples allows sharing experiences, resources, and insights so that those who have learned in one way or another can share their knowledge convey their culture to the world and by co-ordinating actions for solidarity and enhanced effectiveness.

This colossal global biofuels industry exists only because resource depletion and climate Armageddon ideologies do not die easily — and because politicians lavish government mandates and billions of dollars in taxpayer and consumer subsidies on firms that have persuasive lobbyists and reliable track records for channeling millions of those dollars back to the politicians who keep the racket going.

[35] Wada, Y., L. P. H. van Beek, C. M. van Kempen, J. W.T.M. Reckman, S. Vasak, and M.F.P. Bierkens (2010), Global depletion of groundwater resources, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol.

Because Sunflow - E is derived from sunlight and industrial waste CO2, Joule can uniquely meet market demand with no depletion of natural resources or impact on global food supply and pricing.

Accelerating the deployment of renewable energy technology will be the key to making a nontrivial impact on global emissions and resource depletion before the end of this century.

Because while ending specific abuses and exploitation is important — for example deforestation or unsustainable fishing practices — the larger problems we face (global climate change, overpopulation, resource depletion) are long - term problems that require systemic fixes.