Sentences with phrase «one's finite resources»

The efficient use of finite resources benefits not only contemporary market participants but future economic agents as well.

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

However, that extra cash competes for finite resources — for example, oil.

And because most of this energy comes from finite resources, simply increasing supplies of these resources is not an option.

It effectively teaches the player how to manage finite resources and the complex consequences of decisions.

It's obvious that economic and population growth can't continue at current rates without crashing into finite resource limits with painful results, and possibly abrupt reductions in growth.

It takes finite resources to develop a powerful brand, so publishers have to really think long and hard about where their dollars are best spent.

Paying attention to design reflects a well - thought out, user - focused experience however against limited time and finite resources there's inevitably things still to do.

Our linear systems of production and consumption see the value of the world's finite resources lost, mined from the ground for chopped down to eventually be thrown away.

Larger populations mean finite resources must be divided among more people.

Burning finite resources may not be the best approach down the line.

Yet it makes much more sense in a world of finite resources.

In essence, we need to discover and apply new technologies and approaches to guide societies towards sustainable pathways to reduce consumption, dependency on finite resources, and environmental pollution.

With middle classes growing in middle - income countries, the challenge arises how to reconcile increasing consumption with finite resources.

However, that extra cash competes for finite resources — for example, oil.

Such an approach ensures that the inspirational surroundings offered by historic buildings are not denied to future generations of students, while also reusing finite resources in the interests of sustainability.

Actually, an economist would define opportunity cost as «the value of the best alternative foregone, in a situation where a choice needs to be made between a variety of alternatives given finite resources.»

Scenario A, since it is exponential, must eventually be on the high side of reality in view of finite resource constraints and environmental concerns, even though the growth of emissions in scenario A (~ 1.5 % / yr) is less than the rate typical of the past century (~ 4 % / yr).

: An inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and with other living things; communities and the relationships within and between them; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict resolution.

Our Bureau of the Budget, for example, exists precisely to allocate finite resources, measured economically as tax revenue — though it often fails to calculate and compare values as thoroughly and responsibly as it does economic figures.

By applying the analogy of an electronic potential divider, I showed that the heaters were just as effective on the outside as on the inside, hence no extra power was required for heaters (luckily, as power is a very finite resource on a satellite).

Control the population and eliminate the unemployed, poor and old people because they just waste finite resources while polluting the earth.

The goal was advanced, most notably, by The Club Of Rome (Consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left unchecked.

Time is our most finite resource.

Over the long haul, basic laws of economics hold that as reserves of finite resources like fossil fuels — whether they are reserves of coal, or petroleum, or natural gas — become constrained, the prices go up.

The solution to a sustainable future will always be walking a tightrope between a need for population control & free markets until geothermal strategies for base load power transplants fossil fuels and indeed until better water availability and a host of other finite resources become magically available.

Appreciating that you will be choosing to spend finite resources (money and time), how do you best ensure you unlock value from involvement in your professional association?

In fact, Suso has added finite resources to the flaming breakdown among many fans by stating in an interview with Estadio Deportivo:

DHCR would then approve projects and allow the state to take an active role in determining how finite resources are spent.

The motivation for the fund was twofold: to convert the state's finite resources into permanent financial assets and to protect these temporary revenues from political misuse.

It will take finite resources away from countering more tangible threats to Israel (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, PA)

It would massively increase the pressure on two other crucial finite resources — land and water — and imply even more use of nitrogen - based fertilisers that acidify soils, upset the natural nitrogen cycle and create dead zones in rivers and oceans.

Either way it represents a ballooning of the share of society's finite resources required to support the needs of the oncoming silver tsunami.

Yet for the second time in a row, director Christopher Di Nunzio manages to cross that threshold and craft an engaging narrative around seemingly finite resources.

There are lots to like in State of Decay 2 and if managing people and finite resources against an environment that wants to eat you alive is your thing, you'll likely have a blast.

Chemistry Atoms & elements and the periodic table Energy changes, rates and reversible reactions Reactivity of elements and compounds Chemistry of earth's finite resources Bonding & structure within compounds

And though it won't be to every racing fan's taste — it's missing a combustion engine for starters — the importance of ultra-efficient racing cars in a world that holds finite resources is undeniably big.

Why do conceptual artists continue to employ finite resources and materials, not to mention occupy valuable space in museums, when, unlike other artists, the conceptual artist has an infinite amount of perfectly adequate space available to make and exhibit art in his or her head?

Adding to the intent and intimacy of her linked series of tightly - cropped grass views, Kitchel's «Energy Study» paintings act as a reminder of America's dependence on potentially finite resources.

Unintended, pernicious challenges resulting from unrestrained increase of per capita over-consumption of Earth's finite resources appear to be threatening to ravage our planetary home.

, which demands a corollary increase in our use of fuels — the most efficient of which is oil, which is, unfortunately limited, along with other similarly finite resources.

«Water holds the key to sustainable development,» «We must work together to protect and carefully manage this fragile finite resource.»

While we applaud the effort of Copenhagen Consensus Centre to raise debates about how to prioritize finite resources on challenging global problems, we take issue with the results.