Sentences with phrase «other societal goals»

... In addition to climate research, scientists, industry, and government should implement measures to cost - effectively protect the climate and intensify efforts to develop technologies that — in addition to meeting other societal goals — could help us mitigate and adapt to the potential effects of climate change.»

Like ExxonMobil, Chevron also emphasizes potential conflicts rather than synergies between climate solutions and other societal goals: «As we work to address climate change, we must create solutions that balance environmental objectives with global economic growth and our aspirations for a better quality of life for people across the world.»

Expanding U.S. biofuel production will require tradeoffs between ambitious fuel production targets and other societal goals, including protection of the water we need for drinking, growing food, preserving aquatic habitats, and producing electricity.

Not exact matches

In light of yesterday's post about how the expensive iPhone may be counter-productive to societal goals, I thought it might be prudent to also touch on the other side.

An inheritance tax takes from people who have done nothing to deserve wealth and don't need it, and gives it to people who direly need it or to other worthy societal goals.

Some believe their work's most important goal is advancing knowledge for its own sake, while others prioritize societal concerns such as contributing to social justice, helping fight climate change, seeking to cure disease, or educating the next generation.

Admittedly, the critical pedagogues have squarely confronted two of the most enduring issues surrounding the work of education: 1) To what extent should the mission of public schools be focused on character development, societal reform, and other such affective goals, as opposed to cognitive development and academic preparation?

Scenario 3: the student has a sincere interest in social justice and societal change, and believes that working as a TFA recruit will help them achieve those goals: the recruit's goals are not aligned with the organization's goals, creating tensions that lead to non-productive disruption among the teaching force and in the schools (see: Gary Rubenstein's work, among others).

There is no single «correct» adaptation pathway, although some decisions, and sequences of decisions, are more likely to result in long - term maladaptive outcomes than others, but the judgment of outcomes depends strongly on societal values, expectations and goals.