Sentences with phrase «nonrenewable resources as»

Long - term sustainability of humans on Earth requires a balance between global population and consumption of renewable resources — not consumption of nonrenewable resources as we are currently doing.

«The widely recited rhetoric that Canada must continue its de facto energy strategy of liquidating its remaining nonrenewable resources as fast as possible to maintain the economy has no credibility,» concluded Hughes in his report.

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Severance taxes are imposed on wells that remove nonrenewable resources, such as crude oil.

Also, if the age of oil will wind down some day (as it must, since oil is a limited, nonrenewable resource), I wouldn't be surprised by a nuclear resurgence.

For another, the more we conserve scarce and nonrenewable resources, such as the oil used so extensively in modern agriculture and elsewhere, the less pressure there will be to engage in an interventionist and imperialist foreign policy and the wars that follow from such a policy.

With respect to nonrenewable resources, we would use them as slowly as possible, developing alternatives as we proceeded.

In the Classroom: Use poems to jump - start a discussion of earth's renewable resources — including air, plants, water, and animals — and nonrenewable resources, such as coal, oil, and natural gas.

Also, if the age of oil will wind down some day (as it must, since oil is a limited, nonrenewable resource), I wouldn't be surprised by a nuclear resurgence.

Traditional plastic bottles are made from polyethylene terephthalate, commonly known as PET, which is derived from petroleum, a nonrenewable resource.

Some resources, such as water, wind and sun, are abundant and nonrenewable.

Today's children can't take for granted a future powered by nonrenewable resources such as oil and natural gas.