Sentences with phrase «resources out of the earth»

But could not smart mining engineers devise a safer way of getting resources out of the earth?

Not exact matches

Cause and effect... natural consequences... civil law... nurturing care of humankind (yeah, animals too) and of the Earth and its resources (and of the universe as we venture out there).

The resources are in the earth and the means to use those resources are at hand to lift mankind beyond the threat of starvation, and out of the grinding condition of insecure physical existence.

If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.

In models represented by options II and III in Figure 3.2, overshooting the sustainable capacity of the Earth occurs soon after the year 2000 with collapse occurring 100 years or so before resources run out.

Marshalling convincing scientific data, they tell us that the environmental degradation caused by massive pollution of air water and land, threatens the very life of earth — fast depletion of non renewal resources, indeed of species themselves, the thinning of the ozone layer that exposes all living creatures to the danger of radiation, the build up of gases creating the greenhouse effect, increasing erosion by the sea — all these are brought out through their research.

Because we already know there are almost an infinitive number of uninhabited planets out there that most certainly contain a lot more minerals and natural resources than we have here on Earth.

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].

NASA WAVELENGTH provides a pathway into a digital collection of Earth and space science resources for educators of all levels — from elementary to college to out - of - school programs.

Set in a preapocalyptic 2048, The Titan posits the familiar idea of an overpopulated Earth running out of resources, but then comes up with a rather more original sci - fi solution.

That raises the question as to why the opening text points out that living in outer space is Earth's most precious resource, and the wording of that information raises even more questions about screenwriters Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback's grasp of syntactic logic (If these living spaces are outside the realm of the planet Earth, they can't technically be a resource of it, now can they?).

It is in cities that the social, economic and environmental sustainable development converge more intensely, making it become necessary to be thought out, planned and managed in accordance with sustainable development model that aims to meet the current needs of the Earth population without compromising its natural resources, bequeathing them to future generations.

For Earth Day, you can check out one of their movies on natural resources, Wangari Maathai, or wind energy.

Tes resources has everything you need to ensure your earth and space lessons for primary science are out of this world!

Begun on April 22, 1970, by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, the purpose of the day was to create awareness that our natural resources will not last forever and to stress each of our responsibility in protecting and preserving our Earth and its resources.On this day, bags of clean soil were passed out, people spilled oil on sidewalks in Washington, DC, to protest oil spills, high school students swept public spaces, and people wore gas masks to show that our air...

Platforms: Xbox 360 / PC / PlayStation 3 Developer: Spark Unlimited Publisher: Capcom Genre: Third Person Shooter Platform Played: PlayStation 3 The Earth is running out of resources, and it's becoming a dire predicament for humanity, forcing humans to search other planets in an effort to gain the resources necessary to keep -LSB-...]

After Earth runs out of resources and everyone goes a little crazy on each other, the nations take to space and start grabbing everything they can up there instead.»

9 billion people trying to consume like Americans means exponential growth in demand on resources — as Paul Krugman recently pointed out, we should think of these combined forces as what it would be like to have 70 billion humans on the earth.

Mora also underscored our joint efforts, saying, «[the MOU with Global Footprint Network] isn't simply to carry out scientific studies on Nariño's Ecological Footprint and biocapacity, but also to direct our province with concrete actions on how to build a green economy that takes ecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainable.»

The climate movement is pointing out that unconventional fossil fuel extraction techniques (fracking, tar sands excavation, deep - water drilling, mountaintop removal coal mining) are leaving or will leave toxic wastes and scars on the landscape as the fossil fuel industry gouges and lacerates the earth in search of combustible fossil resources.

«The fact that the earth's atmosphere can not safely absorb the amount of carbon we are pumping into it is a symptom of a much larger crisis, one born of the central fiction on which our economic model is based: that nature is limitless, that we will always be able to find more of what we need, and that if something runs out it can be seamlessly replaced by another resource that we can endlessly extract.»

In the real world, the idea of actually running out of waste is almost unfathomable: the resources are plentiful (thanks to nearly 7 billion people on the planet Earth), but people don't always step up to the plate with proper waste management habits.

I'm inspired by the fact that I know that we have all come out of the Earth and we are part of the Earth, and that the Earth does not simply provide resources for humans but this is our home, and animals are our kindred species.

It will be interesting (and sad) to see when fossil fuels no longer have the value they do today (because of their unintended damage to the earth's climate), and when at the same time they turn out to be the cause of Texas» downfall as a wealthy and powerful state, i.e. when unrelenting water resource issues (and here and here) drive half the population away, and leave the state a shell of its once arrogant self.