Sentences with phrase «huge resources away»

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Huge amounts of resources that could have been used to create incentives are instead squandered away without receiving anything in return.

The issue is that modern agricultural - industrial civilization is the thing that is taking away the choices of the people carrying water and gathering fuel, by enabling huge population growth while simultaneously sapping resources worldwide.

In much of the 3rd world, Andy's example of girls gathering firewood and water is typically a situation where a culture that used to live somewhat comfortably and with stability, through a combination of foraging, pastoralism, and small - scale agriculture or horticulture, is now seriously out of balance because unplanned modernization prompted huge population increases at the same time that resources were taken away by competing cultures.

The resources required to rapidly move away from fossil fuels and prepare for the coming heavy weather could pull huge swaths of humanity out of poverty, providing services now sorely lacking, from clean water to electricity.

While we are still many months away from reaping the benefit of offshore wind in South Carolina, given the huge wind resource we have, along with its great economic and environmental benefits, SACE welcomes this development that is critical to realizing the potential of offshore wind.