Sentences with phrase «on a finite planet»

When you try to create infinite growth on a finite planet, only two things can change: Either the planet gets bigger, which seems unlikely, or the economy stops growing.

But that line of discourse might — in the long run — chart a more productive path toward human progress on a finite planet.

We live on a finite planet, so growing indefinitely into the future is not possible.

It's just a reality to keep in mind on the path toward fitting human aspirations on a finite planet.

The result, this group says, is that infinite aspirations can in fact fit on a finite planet.

How that gets worked out probably will help determine whether there is a relatively smooth journey toward more or less 9 billion people on a finite planet in the next few decades.

There are two ways of looking at the problem of growing population on a finite planet.

We humans are becoming a danger to ourselves, simply because of our natural capacity to multiply indefinitely on a finite planet.

Climate change is a subset of the story of our time, which is that we are coming of age on a finite planet and only just now recognizing that it is finite.

We can not achieve a stable society on a finite planet on the present principle of all consuming as much as we can.

Yes of course infinite growth is impossible on a finite planet.

To what extremes are we willing to go, to fit more and more people and bigger and bigger economies on a finite planet?

Artist deeply concerned about a broad failure in communication about the dangers of expanding consumption and exploitation on a finite planet.

It is not possible to have infinite growth on a finite planet.

Is there a way to keep the magnetic allure of such games but build in scientific concepts or goals that could foster progress on this finite planet?

As long as we live on a finite planet, however, that ain't gonna happen.

Given that the goal of this Dot Earth journey is to clarify how to fit our seemingly infinite aspirations on a finite planet, such efforts have great value.

Despite its limitations, the book provides a stimulating blueprint for fostering progress that can fit on a finite planet.

The new doctrine resonates with one theme of Dot Earth: a quest for ways to avoid big regrets on the road toward 9 billion people on a finite planet.

In the long run, for the population on a finite planet, the long run growth rate of any physically meaningful quantity is zero.

His most recent nonfiction book, on accelerating innovation to overcome environmental and natural resource challenges, is The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet.

This weblog explores the transition to a sustainable future on our finite planet.

* The phrase — not heard often in these halls — was just one of many signs of the free - wheeling nature of discussions that unfolded in hopes of charting fresh paths toward durable human advancement on a finite planet.

On «Is there deeper concern out there, perhaps, about the viability of an economics driven by the engine of ever - growing consumption on a finite planet?»

We have created a lifestyle that is the envy of the world, emulated almost everywhere, but a growing number of us don't believe that it is sustainable on a finite planet.

If governments and other public and private institutions don't intensify efforts to stimulate innovation and enterprise (the exploitation of new ideas), particularly in the energy arena, it's hard to see a relatively smooth road toward a decent life on a finite planet for the nine billion people, more or less, who will inhabit it by midcentury.

After nine years and 2,810 posts, a blog seeking a sustainable path for humans on a finite planet comes to an end.Read more...

I asked a few folks about facets of this, among them Peter Singer, the ethicist at Princeton who's written for ages on animal rights and environmental values on a finite planet.

«Creating more for everyone else» is a paean to the notion that economic growth can go on forever on a finite planet.

That idea is itself preposterous on a finite planet.

# 298 — «I find it interesting that the thing you can least imagine happening is a commitment to degrowth, even though that essentially is just a commitment to words (rather than massive infrastructure buildouts required for a major ramp up of alternatives); and to imagining an economy that can actually be potentially sustained long term on a finite planet.»

Dot Earth began five years and 2,000 posts ago as an open exploration of ways to smooth the human journey in a fast - motion century on a finite planet.

A quick photographic Earth Day note: Even as societies ponder how to smooth the human journey on a finite planet at the global scale, it doesn't hurt to try to get things reasonably right in our own neighborhoods.

The article is a fascinating exploration of the basic question at the heart of Dot Earth: can humanity's infinite aspirations fit on a finite planet as our numbers and appetites crest.

At Bard, for certain core assignments, students were divided into groups taking the approaches of different stakeholders in the drama of human development on a finite planet.

There will be 9 billion people on this finite planet by 2025 and if EVERY ONE of them will have the expectation of MANY Great - great grandchildren to post letters to, then we are ALL in deep dino doo doo.

As Annie says, ``... you can not run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.»

Presenter Gretchen Sleicher (stepping in for Pam Wood, who was unable to present at the last minute) gave a program on «The Great Turning,» which she described as «the adventure of moving toward a life - sustaining civilization» — in opposition to the «the idea that we can keep going and going on a finite planet.»

Pragmatic choices must be made on a finite planet.

Pursuing progress on a finite planet @insideNatGeo.

The piece is intended as a statement about the idea of infinite economic growth on a finite planet.

With appropriate guidance, students can not only develop story - and idea - sharing skills that mesh written and audiovisual output, but put those skills to use even as they learn, potentially playing a role in fostering progress on a finite planet.

His works include The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet, Nexus, Crux, More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement and Apex.

Another keystone to better meshing humanity's infinite aspirations with life on a finite planet will be slowly shifting value systems from the foundation up, not through some Beltway debate.