Sentences with phrase «of nonrenewable resources»

Though we know very little, our best and brightest are finding evidence that our use of your nonrenewable resources — your limited gifts — has given this planet a fever that we don't know how to cure.

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.

Sadly, it will be either gas taxes and / or diminishing supplies of this nonrenewable resource that will encourage consumers to stop driving and wasting energy, and, in effect, reduce the «pressure at the pump».

This can not be true of nonrenewable resources, where the goal can only be to use them as frugally and efficiently as possible.

Growth is halted in this run through the effects of nonrenewable resource depletion [emphasis added].

More seriously the increased production will speed up the exhaustion of nonrenewable resources and make more difficult the attainment of sustainable use of renewable ones.

All kinds of nonrenewable resources are rapidly disappearing.

Pindyck, R. S. (1978): «The optimal exploration and production of nonrenewable resources,» Journal of Political Economy, 841 - 861.

This is based on the theory of nonrenewable resources.

The international movement known as Transition Town began in 2005, in England, as a response to concerns over peak oil, unsustainable economic systems and the exploitation of nonrenewable resources.

Livernois, J. R. and R. S. Uhler (1987): «Extraction costs and the economics of nonrenewable resources,» Journal of Political Economy, 95, 195 - 203.

Today we might add a fourth: ecological viability, in the double sense of reducing consumption of nonrenewable resources and protecting the ecosystem against disastrous pollution.

[2] The potential emissions from coal, oil and gas is limited by the supply of these nonrenewable resources.

Green design can loosely be defined in terms of a set of objectives: to reduce the use of nonrenewable resources, both in the manufacturing process and in the finished object or building itself; to enhance the lives not just of users but also of everyone in the supply chain; and to minimize the environmental impact of the product or building during and after its useful life.