Sentences with phrase «more human waste»

«The more the number of climbers, the more human waste and garbage that are left on the mountain.

Not exact matches

The U.N. met the goal of doubling access to water, but the world is behind in ensuring healthy water access: 2.5 billion people and almost 1 billion children still lack access to basic sanitation, and more than 2 million tons of human waste are released in waterways in developing countries on a daily basis, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

Charity «encourages the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it... a dead weight of human waste.»

No more religion - in politics, schools, or work, It needs to go - Its time to use all of the wasted resources that is being using on Christianity and Islam for something that actually benefits the human race and doesn't cause continuous strife.

Finally, there is increased anxiety concerning climate change — with some environmentalists demonising human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.

In western medicine the human placenta is usually regarded as nothing more than human waste.

This puts the human waste where it belongs, down the toilet, and not in our land fills (more of a health hazard b3).

Composting human waste needs a bit more attention, done improperly may spread human disease.

Cloth diapers keep more trash (and human waste) out of landfills and drastically reduce things like packaging and chemical processing.

Our garbage is becoming more and more like, human waste.»

I'll stick up for TerraPower because the assignment was inherent safety based on physics; no humans, no buttons, no training; superior economics; more than a factor of 10 waste reduction; strong proliferation — anti-proliferation.

The model suggests that outbreaks are more likely in urban areas with higher human and mosquito population densities, in years with longer growing seasons, when infected travelers arrive early in the growing season, and when tiger mosquitos have fewer non-human hosts that result in wasted bites.

Humans, other great apes, and gibbons, (but not more distantly related primates like baboons) can't dispose of the the waste product of purine metabolism (uric acid), and hence we're susceptible to gout when consuming carnivorous diets.

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

The film also has an undercurrent of ugliness to it, intentional to a certain extent, with more shots and dialogue about human waste than is typical for a law enforcement thriller.

Something like 70 percent of human diseases generally start in animals first (avian influenza, mad cow, chronic wasting disease) and then spread to humans, so we're seeing more demand for public health specialists.

What's more, although humans are disgusted by urine and feces, cats don't see them as unpleasant, so they would be unlikely to use waste products as weapons against their humans.

Every year, human beings toss over 6 million tons of waste into the world's oceans, killing more than a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals.

I mean, people were saying the same thing about Battlefield One, which was based on an even more useless waste of human lives and suffering, but once it was released people found that the game did in fact try to be a respectful interpretation of the events it depicted.

As I wrote a few months ago, 2.6 billion people face this problem every day, and more than 1.5 million people, mainly children, die prematurely from exposure to water tainted with human waste.

The biomethane that fuels the Bio-Bus is generated from sewage and food waste (waste which is unfit for human consumption), and because the bus» engine produces lower emissions while burning biomethane than conventional diesel does, it could not only help improve air quality, but also help to prove the case for more waste - to - fuel projects.

I'm curious why composting human waste isn't more common.

How much time will humans waste making claims of too much uncertainty and calls for more study, before acting to try to save the life on this planet?

Gore's producer Laure David touts plastic crisis: «Plastic waste is in some ways more alarming for us humans than global warming» — July 31, 2009

Selected Excerpts From David's blog post: «This insidious invasion of the biosphere by our plastic waste is in some ways more alarming for us humans than global warming.

So much more work took place: the dredging of river banks, the construction of drainage gullies, the installation of meteorological stations linked to a national real - time flood alert system, the introduction of toilets to convert human waste to compost, improved waste collection and disposal, and regular clean - ups.

Trapped in that shallow layer human waste heat more readily raises the minimum temperature.

If shoppers, cooks, and eaters all contributed a bit more forethought and planning to the contents of their kitchens, much of the 35 million tons of food wasted annually by Americans could be diverted from landfills to human nourishment.

The average single gold ring, weighing in at 1/3 of an ounce, generates 20 tons of waste, and gold mining can cause a bevy of problems that run the gamut from air, water and soil pollution to human rights violations (more info on dirty gold can be found here).

But our human waste system with huge amounts of paper and other cellulose products have 5 - 10 times more biocarbon that we let get degraded to reemit GHGs when we could be converting them to inert carbon.

The reason is simple: increasing human populations since the Industrial Revolution have meant more agriculture, more waste, and more fossil fuel production.

# 6: Saluda River (SC) Threat: Sewage pollution The drinking water source for more than 500,000 people and a hot spot for boaters and anglers, the Saluda River is choking from phosphorous pollution found in human waste.

For those of us on a more human time frame, the methane and other gases emitted from decomposing organic matter work just as well as the stuff you have to frack out of the ground... and, as you can see in the infographic below, create all sorts of opportunities to deal with wastes more efficiently, and to even create a few jobs.

My understanding is that the socioeconomic variables are a proxy for human activity & infrastructure — waste heat & asphalt — which are more concentrated in urban areas, and are probably on the rise throughout most of the world through the post-war 1950s - 80s.

I can imagine nothing more inefficient than wasting massive amounts of young human capital by having them sit at their computers running fake law firms.

At the end of 2017, I promised that I would spend less time on my phone, since I wanted to reclaim some of that often - wasted time for other things, like reading or spending more time with actual humans.

In 2016, if you're lucky to have a human read your resume (many companies use ATSs — Applicant Tracking Systems), be sure that he or she won't be wasting more than 6 seconds on an average looking resume.

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