Not exact matches
The entire premise is built
upon our own natural fear of
technology and our current complete
reliance upon it.
The data that Exxon relies
upon are from old models with dated
technology cost assumptions and, as demonstrated by a
reliance on significant growth in bio-energy, many of the models appear limited in their capacity to fully capture potential impact
upon oil demand.
Jeff Tollefson in Nature points to the 2C scenarios in the fifth IPCC report as a source of hope for policymakers, yet their unreasonable
reliance upon negative emissions
technologies like BECCS — a systemic bias, as Chris Mooney in the Washington Post reports — suggest there's limited or distorted hope in models.
Taking the pace of change in science,
technology, population growth, commerce and finance from around 1830 as the pivotal time, nothing that religion could offer has been able to match the complexity of human need and its
reliance upon laws.