Sentences with phrase «resource consumption so»

How can we optimize our energy use and resource consumption so that both the current massive gaps in both standard of living and quality of life can be reduced, while at the same time minimizing environmental impact?

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Perhaps surprising is that these firms are targeting meat eaters, not vegans or vegetarians, and they are doing so by focusing on the need for the entire population to cut down on animal consumption to conserve valuable water and land resources.

As the world's population continues to grow, so does our consumption of natural resources.

So, people are now talking about population and consumption, resource, maxing out resources.

Fischetti: The early [assertion] in the book about, I think it's being proved [out], [that] the earth really can't substantiate the resources that we're extracting from it or the waste that we're producing; and there's more studies that are coming out very recently even that are proving starting to put numbers on all of that, so the assertion is I think is that continued growth is not possible without greater resource consumption and [waste creation].

In Figure 2, it can be seen that in Circular Economy, natural resources, which are used as primary raw materials in the manufacturing process, are transformed into products for human consumption that will generate solid waste that, after it became a secondary raw material, it's used in manufacturing products, and so on.

So the idea that we will soon reach a population of nine billion and that investment can bring that population to the present level of over consumption and waste of resources committed in the U.S. is sheer fantasy.

Per capita consumption is a function of economies of scale from a growing population, so a shrinking population will not consume at the same rate, even though the resources are there to exploit.

Meanwhile, the Earth's current population can easily be supported — and comfortably so — with a fraction of humanity's current «resource» consumption, and with zero fossil fuel use.

Which then leads to a very different characterization of the problem in which carbon emissions are really just a by - product of a cheap energy consumerist society, and the problem isn't to reduce emissions, it is to restructure our entire societies (and our conceptions of them) so that we no longer depend on growth in resource consumption as our definition of human progress.

So, we don't have time to sit and slowly change things, and the only way to reduce consumption and atmospheric carbon in ways that do it fast enough to limit SLR to 10 ft. or so, avoid destruction of global potable water resources, and create equity and justice within a new, sustainable paradigm is rapid simplificatioSo, we don't have time to sit and slowly change things, and the only way to reduce consumption and atmospheric carbon in ways that do it fast enough to limit SLR to 10 ft. or so, avoid destruction of global potable water resources, and create equity and justice within a new, sustainable paradigm is rapid simplificatioso, avoid destruction of global potable water resources, and create equity and justice within a new, sustainable paradigm is rapid simplification.

It's very difficult to define optimal levels of consumption, so the idea should be to aim to decrease rates of growth, and modify this over time, depending on how fast we are using resources and encountering problems.

This, they say, points to the profound scale of global inequality, which means that the benefits of the so - called Great Acceleration in consumption of resources are unevenly distributed, and this in turn confounds efforts to deal with the impact of this assault on the planetary machinery.

Most of those people will be fairly poor (by Western standards, though hopefully less so than their forbearers), which means their per - capita consumption of resources will be fairly low.

On this basis we could expect consumption rates to almost double by 2100, so that the total resource would only last a bit less than 200 years.

One of the key benefits associated with energy efficiency and renewable energy programs (clean energy) is that they reduce consumption of fossil fuel resources, and in doing so reduce fossil fuel - related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Typically as human populations and per - capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.

Moreover, improvements in resource efficiency are unlikely to be enough on their own, in part because more efficient technologies tend to lower costs, freeing up money that is inevitably spent on additional consumption (the so - called rebound effect) 48.

For the Environment Group of UNEP2 sustainable consumption and production practices are «the use of services and related products, which respond to basic needs and bring a better quality of life while minimising the use of natural resources and toxic materials as well as the emissions of waste and pollutants over the life cycle of the service or product so as not to jeopardise the needs of future generations.»

Even without the convincing developments of the last 40 years of climate science and its expansion to cover a wide variety of evidence and disciplines, it should be obvious to the simpleminded that our planet is finite, our consumption increasing, imitators from the world previously unable to use so much are on the increase, and resources are being used up.

They say, «Technological change can raise the efficiency of resource use, but it also tends to raise both per capita resource consumption and the scale of resource extraction, so that, absent policy effects, the increases in consumption often compensate for the increased efficiency of resource use.»

In any case, the probability of adopting rationality, moderation, and restraint in resource consumption in general and energy use in particular, and even more so the likelihood of persevering on such a course, is impossible to quantify.

So the conculsion is, we may have 100 years of domestic NG in the US based upon current consumption, and these resources are valueable, just not as valuable as past resources.

Much of the resource consumption seems to come from background processes, so Huawei's custom skin may be at fault as well (more on that in the next section).