Sentences with phrase «health over fossil fuel»
New York State has already shown that it is prepared to prioritize human health over fossil fuel extraction with its refusal in 2014 to permit high - volume fracking.
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A vast number of scientists, engineers, and visionary businessmen are boldly designing a future that is based on low - impact energy pathways and living within safe planetary boundaries; a future in which substantial health gains can be achieved by eliminating fossil - fuel pollution; and a future in which we strive to hand over a liveable planet to posterity.
Our mobility, our health and lifestyles, our diet and its variety, our education system, particularly at the higher level, and our high culture would be quite impossible without fossil fuels, which have provided over 90 % of the energy consumed on the earth since 1800.
Considering that fossil fuels played a major part in our economic success and improved health and living standards over the past century, such a plus factor would be enormous.
By contrast, despite spending over $ 2 trillion in 5 decades, aid programs have much less to show in terms of poverty reduction — or its ancillary benefits, e.g., reductions in hunger, disease, better health care and education, and greater adaptive capacity to deal with climate change and natural disasters — than does fossil fuel - powered economic development.
Moreover, facing the problem squarely and honestly runs contrary to a shared value system — one that discounts the need for government regulation, favors industry growth and profit over public health and safety, and places a high priority on maximizing domestic fossil fuel extraction.
A 2014 IMF report (covering over 150 countries) provides estimates for taxes on fossil fuel products to reflect pollution and other environmental impacts associated with energy use, while underscoring the large environmental, health, and fiscal benefits from tax reform and the critical role of finance ministries in administration and ensuring efficient use of revenues.