Sentences with phrase «if global consumption»

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«If impending old age is the issue, it can be very difficult to convince households via lower rates to shift desired consumption from the future into the present,» Steven Englander, global head of G - 10 foreign - exchange strategy at Citigroup, said in a note Tuesday.

«That said, mining is very profitable at today's bitcoin price, and if cryptocurrencies continue to appreciate we expect global mining power consumption to increase,» the Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in their research note.

If the global economy were to recover much more quickly than most of us expect, and, much more importantly, if Beijing were to initiate a far more aggressive program of privatization and wealth transfer than I think politically possible, perhaps transferring in the first few years the equivalent of as much as 2 - 5 % of GDP, the surge in household income could unleash much stronger consumption growth than we have seen in the pasIf the global economy were to recover much more quickly than most of us expect, and, much more importantly, if Beijing were to initiate a far more aggressive program of privatization and wealth transfer than I think politically possible, perhaps transferring in the first few years the equivalent of as much as 2 - 5 % of GDP, the surge in household income could unleash much stronger consumption growth than we have seen in the pasif Beijing were to initiate a far more aggressive program of privatization and wealth transfer than I think politically possible, perhaps transferring in the first few years the equivalent of as much as 2 - 5 % of GDP, the surge in household income could unleash much stronger consumption growth than we have seen in the past.

To get a sense of the enormity of that task, consider calculations from the International Energy Agency that show global oil consumption will need to fall to 80 million barrels a day by 2035 if we're to limit atmospheric carbon to 450 parts per million.

The trend away from energy scarcity and toward energy abundance creates big losers as well as winners and is only a net positive for global demand if the winners» boost in consumption offsets the losers» cut in consumption and capital spending.

Over a quarter of global consumers (27 %) consider food and drink to be appealing if products are advertised for consumption at a specific time of day, according to research by consumer insight firm Canadean.

Hypothetically, if all the main cereal and sugar crops (wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, sugar cane, cassava and sugar beet), representing 42 % of global cropland, were to be converted to ethanol, this would correspond to only 57 % of total petrol use in 2003, and leave no cereals or sugar for human consumption (although the reduced sugar in the human diet would have health benefits).

If Americans» 163 million Fidos and Felixes comprised a separate country, their fluffy nation would rank fifth in global meat consumption, Okin calculated, behind only Russia, Brazil, the United States and China.

«If you look at this in a broad sense, about 5 percent of our total global energy consumption is spent on electronics,» said co-senior author Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Berkeley Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Technologies and a UC Berkeley professor of materials science and engineering and of physics.

If global oil consumption continues to rise at the current rate of 1.3 per cent per year, the planet's proven oil reserves of 1.332 trillion barrels are expected to run out in 2041.

While most of this deforestation occurred in South America, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and the majority of agricultural products causing deforestation were consumed in the countries of origin, goods consumed in the EU contributed to approximately 90,000 square kilometers of lost forestland — about 7 % of the global deforestation resulting from agricultural expansion during this period, and up to 10 % if all finally processed products and all consumption sectors — such as textiles, pharmaceuticals, and service sectors — are added on.

And for a vegan bodybuilder who must unfortunatelly play tetris with the food sources that he choses in order to give to his body the right ammounts of aminos, restricting SPI and soy foods so much does not make his goal any easier.There are sometimes that you need a meal thats complete with aminos and soy provides that meal with the additional benefits of lacking the saturated fats trans cholesterol and other endothelium inflammatory factors.I'm not saying that someone should go all the way to 200gr of SPI everyday or consuming a kilo of soy everyday but some servings of soy now and then even every day or the use of SPI which helps in positive nitrogen balance does not put you in the cancer risk team, thats just OVERexaggeration.Exercise, exposure to sunlight, vegan diet or for those who can not something as close to vegan diet, fruits and vegetables which contains lots of antioxidants and phtochemicals, NO STRESS which is the global killer, healthy social relationships, keeping your cortisol and adrenaline levels down (except the necessary times), good sleep and melatonin function, clean air, no radiation, away from procceced foods and additives like msg etc and many more that i can not even remember is the key to longevity.As long as your immune system is functioning well and your natural killer cells TP53 gene and many other cancer inhibitors are good and well, no cancer will ever show his face to you.With that logic we shouldn't eat ANY ammount of protein and we should go straight to be breatharians living only with little water and sunlight exposure cause you like it or not the raise of IGF1 is inevitable i know that raise the IGF1 sky high MAYBE is not the best thing but we are not talking about external hormones and things like this.Stabby raccoon also has a point.And even if you still worry about the consumption of soy... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21711174.

Also, the tablet is reported to be undergoing tests in Germany which if true will mean the device is for a global consumption and not just for China.

Director of Critical Studies and MA / PhD programs in UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Sylvia Lavin engages artists, architects, and curators in a series of lively discussions on how cities are increasingly molded by images rather than buildings; on whether art and architecture are converging to form an integrated type of cultural consumption; and if the concept of the masterpiece has finally been destroyed by the sheer quantity of global design production.

The Weather Makers will present three large - scale video works alongside a new print series, weaving together myth and metaphor with scientific research and new digital technologies, The exhibition asks the viewer to consider what the future might look like if we continue on our current trajectory of planetary pillaging and consumption, and why we have allowed ourselves to arrive at such a moment of global environmental crisis.

(finally we're talking about it out loud) And speaking of Wilson's Law, he is the one who suggests we need four planet earth's to sustain the current global consumption habits if the rest of the world models the idea of the good life after guess who?

If the current strong growth of plastics usage continues as expected, the plastics sector will account for 20 % of total oil consumption and 15 % of the global annual carbon budget by 2050.

If we keep doing what we are doing now — as we relentlessly grow global economic production capabilities, adamantly condone skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers, and foolishly raise the level of per capita consumption of limited resources — are we not likely to keep getting what we are getting now?

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

I reject the idea that it is somehow inappropriate to acknowledge that catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is not only possible but plausible if we continue with anything close to business as usual consumption of fossil fuels and the other activities that are contributing to ever - increasing GHG emissions.

It may be possible to weather this onslaught if we begin preparing now, by building low - carbon, high - density cities away from the coasts, radically improving the efficiency of water and energy systems, boosting local and global emergency - response capacities, and adjusting to a less consumption - and waste - oriented lifestyle.

«A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high - quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States... De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation... Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.»

They add: «Direct air capture could become a major industry if the technology matures and prices drop dramatically... Direct air capture might require much less land [than other negative emissions techniques], but entail much higher costs and consumption of a large fraction of global energy production.

«Meat production represents 18 percent of global human - induced GHG emissions... While the world is looking for sharp reductions in greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, growing global meat production is going to severely compromise future efforts... a study from the University of Chicago showed that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by 20 percent it would be as if they switched from a standard sedan to the ultra-efficient Prius.»

Using a cross-country data set, we show that human population growth rates are negatively related to per - capita energy consumption, with zero growth occurring at ∼ 13 kW, suggesting that the global human population will stop growing only if individuals have access to this amount of power.

A doubling to 560 parts per million since the Industrial Revolution could occur by mid-century if global economies adopt the Trump Administration's animosity towards climate action and fossil fuel consumption continues unabated.

«Indeed, if one excludes carbon, global biocapacity exceeds the footprint of consumption by about 45 % in 2008,» Blomqvist says.

Even if coal consumption increased by 3 percent to 3.90 billion tons in 2017 as the Global Carbon Project report said, it is still far less than the 4 billion tons in 2015, let alone challenging the 4.24 billion tons peak in 2013.

But if every country moved up the energy ladder — from wood and dung to fossil fuels and from fossil fuels to uranium — all humans could achieve, or even surpass, Western levels of energy consumption while reducing global environmental damage below today's levels.

How hot is it going to get if global coal consumption peaks at 7 billion tons per year, oil consumption peaks at 100 million barrels per day and natural gas consumption peaks at 150 trillion cubic feet per year?

If China doesn't begin to limit its coal consumption by 2030, it will be «almost impossible» for the world avoid a situation where global warming stays below 2 °C, a new study released Monday found.

Indeed, if one excludes carbon, global biocapacity exceeds the footprint of consumption by about 45 % in 2008 (the latest year for which data are available) and by an average of 69 % over the period from 1961 to 2008.

Thus, if we are to rescue mankind from the perils of poverty, we must dramatically increase global energy consumption.

«In 2014, the global consumption of coal, oil and natural gas reached 8.2 billion tons, 33.6 billion barrels and 3.5 trillion cubic meters respectively, which can sustain [the world] for 110, 53 and 54 years if the current exploration intensity still maintains,» Liu said.

The risks associated with fracking go beyond the point of production; if the benefit in natural gas use comes through its consumption, the advantage is lost through the rest of its lifecycle — especially when mistakes, accidents, poor regulation, and poor maintenance allow massive leaks to affect local populations and the global atmosphere.

If you're wondering about global trade physically slowing down, due to efforts to reduce fuel consumption and emissions from container ships, the point - to - point speed today is not that much different than the fastest clipper ships — assuming constant wind of course.

From my comment 137 above, assuming the CO2 forcing was for 2005, the ratio of CO2 radiative forcing to global primary energy consumption (including nuclear + renewable) at that time was 53.7 ± 5.5; if the forcing was for 2007, that drops to 51.4 ± 5.3.

Even if possible and we ignore the basic biological fact that we are predators, our global consumption rate would seem to pose an issue, if everyone ate only plants.

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.

Therefore, their levels need to be strictly controllled by government if we are ever to establish acceptable consumption levels to the point where catastrophic global warming can be avoided.

Tragically, the net effect on the global atmospheric commons will be negligible, because if enough consumers respond to non-price incentives to reduce their consumption, the direct price of fossil fuels will decline, making it economic for others to increase their consumption.

Of course, there is another elephant in the room, which is that if our rate of consumption of global resources across the board already far exceeds Earth's ability to replenish them (see «Earth Overshoot Day,» «Ecological Debt Day,» which the Global Footprint Network says that we hit this year on August 20), then it's frightening to think what would happen if every country in the world had a population that consumed like America's or Europe's populaglobal resources across the board already far exceeds Earth's ability to replenish them (see «Earth Overshoot Day,» «Ecological Debt Day,» which the Global Footprint Network says that we hit this year on August 20), then it's frightening to think what would happen if every country in the world had a population that consumed like America's or Europe's populaGlobal Footprint Network says that we hit this year on August 20), then it's frightening to think what would happen if every country in the world had a population that consumed like America's or Europe's populations.

If people don't like Hiroshima bombs you could go with something like «global energy consumption».