Sentences with phrase «on finite»

Updated management on Finite Element Analysis results and issues identified with the current design status.

RockMelt was really challenged when users requested the ability to chat to multiple people simultaneously through multiple channels, and to make all that available on a finite section of valuable screen real estate.

When it comes to running the company, Spencer focuses on a finite set of words: Passion, Commitment, Teamwork and the direct correlation between Working Smart and Success.

«Building the «Knowosphere»: How new ways to share and shape ideas can help build durable progress on a finite planet»

The problem with trying to answer big questions is also that you sometimes don't answer anything — the House Science Committee staffer made it very clear that their objective was to at least get some answers on finite questions rather than simply adding to grand issues.

The Asian Development Bank has called for» increasing energy efficiency and reducing reliance on fossil fuels; adopting a new approach to urbanisation by building more compact and eco-friendly cities; relying much more on mass transit for urban dwellers and railways for long - distance transport; and changing lifestyles to alleviate pressures on finite natural resources».

Yes the series of reflections is infinite but it converges on a finite number.

or Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet (Video)

Anthropophilia To sustain progress on a finite planet that is increasingly under human sway, but also full of surprises, what is needed is a strong dose of anthropophilia.

Pursuing progress on a finite planet @insideNatGeo.

By uncritically supporting these policies, we are unwittingly perpetuating the neoliberal fantasy of infinite growth on a finite planet.

Pragmatic choices must be made 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?

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It is based on a finite resource that will run out one day.

A far more dangerous threat to the human endeavor is, in my mind, our reliance on finite resources and the difficulty our economic systems will have coping with a decline in the availability of cheap energy.»

Energy Security Breeds Political Security Whether or not the intricacies of Palestinian / Israeli cooperation can be navigated by those promoting solar, it seems fair to say that more clean, renewable energy, increased energy and economic security, and a decrease in reliance on finite fossil fuels should be an important step toward eliminating sources of conflict across the Globe.

Anyone who still clings to the notion that maintaining the «Business as Usual» automobile centric paradigm in which it is necessary for a single occupant to be esconced in a 3000 lb steel shell to travel from point A to point B doesn't yet understand the full implications of physical limits on a finite planet containing 7 billion plus Homo idioticus.

We can argue about what they are and when they will hit, but the idea of an infinite growth on a finite planet is quite delusional.

Remember this: the core proposition our economic model is based on is a simple but impossible concept — infinite growth on a finite planet.

It is true that the coming years won't be pleasant, as our society and economy hits the wall and then realigns around what was always an obvious reality: You can not have infinite growth on a finite planet.

«These renewable energy investments drive down greenhouse gas emissions, reduce our dependence on finite resources, and help keep our air and water clean.

It is now widely agreed that our current food and farming system is unsustainable, based, - as it is - on finite supplies of oil, the use of which contributes to climate change.

Revkin has also written three book chapters on communication and the environment and speaks to varied audiences around the world about the power of the Web to foster progress on a finite planet.

Scattering the landscape with tiny houses is only gradually less demanding on finite resources than sprawling mansions.

Does anyone at all in conventional economics and the broader community realise that growth can not go on forever in a finite land or on a finite planet?

What remains is a very silly concept that reduces to «you can't have an infinite population on a finite planet».

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

Demanding constant growth on a finite planet is suicidal.

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

Our unregulated capitalist system of infinite economic growth on a finite planet is driving the increase of fossil fuel emissions beyond the planet's ecological limits.

«The pressure on a finite planet will make us radically change human activity», said Pretty.

Exploring the Transition to a Sustainable Future on a Finite Planet To prosper for very much longer on the changing Earth humankind will need to move beyond its current fossil - fueled civilization toward one that is sustained on recycled materials and renewable energy.

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

But this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy can't grow forever.

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

As I have written above, any model can only solve numerically algebraic equations on a finite grid with very low resolution (typically 100s of km).

democracymmmk, that sounds rational until you consider the consequence of everyone thinking like that: complete dependence on a finite fuel source and profligate use.

On a finite planet?

Peretto, P. F. and S. Valente (2015): «Growth on a finite planet: Resources, technology and population in the long run,» Journal of Economic Growth, 20, 305 - 331.

That subsidy, which has enabled human population and wealth to grow exponentially, is based on finite resources and can not continue indefinitely.

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

And, my good friends, let's not forget how overpopulation has single handedly changed the way the game is played and how we think about one another on a finite planet with diminishing resources.

A field of study (Economics) based on insane assumptions (e.g., infinite growth on a finite planet is both possible and desirable) is an insane field of study.

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

The growth of the ecological footprint of a human population about to increase from 7B now to 9B in 2050 raises serious concerns about how to live both more efficiently and with less permanent impacts on the finite world.

They're the only practical means of rapidly addressing two crises — global warming and our dependence on finite energy resources largely derived from the world's most volatile regions.

«On a finite planet, at human carrying capacity, a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.»

What would be useful is action, now, to clean up the tenancy of the human species on its finite planet before it's too late.

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?