Sentences with phrase «resources than the planet»

An indisputable fact is that humanity has ever consumes more natural resources than the planet can replenish.

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Maybe algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million vehicles via fuel cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.

The President called for a «sustainable... planet for our kids,» which requires even more than cleaning up our energy resources.

This is an important milestone for the company, and while Reddit the business continues to grow and is healthier than ever, the additional capital provides even more resources to build a Reddit that is accessible, welcoming, broad, and available to everyone on the planet.

Yes it's a far stretch from UFO's to an enlightened civilization, but those who are visiting are surely more sane than this planet of nations competing for resources, polluting the water and land while still using fossil fuels, fighting in «God's» name...

«Through YieldWise, The Rockefeller Foundation will finish the business we started with the Green Revolution more than a half - century ago — to ensure more of the world's people are fed and the planet's precious resources are protected.»

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.

The largest identified resources are in Chile and Bolivia, which between them hold more than 40 per cent of the planet's known totals (see «Lithium locations»).

Hence that means the planet's population will more than triple in my own lifetime, which also has its own energy resource implications.

But with a growing recognition that coal - fire emissions may threaten the planet as a whole, scientists and others hope more resources will be deployed to put the insidious fires out — a task that is much harder than it sounds.

With many friends working for oil companies, I know this is not really true, but at the same time my ambition had always been slightly different to theirs: to better understand the planet we live on, rather than exploit its resources.

We have two guiding principles: we don't use natural resources faster than they can be replenished by the planet, and we don't deposit wastes faster than they can be absorbed.

Its drain on the earth's resources is enormous: it claims 70 percent of all freshwater taken by our species and more than 40 percent of the planet's solid surface (nearly all the arable land), with attendant casualties in biodiversity.

ISRU stands for «in - situ resource utilization» — a concept that, to feasibly explore and colonize other planets, we must be able to manufacture or harvest important materials (water, oxygen, food) from other planets, rather than shipping everything from Earth.

«No natural resource is more precious than water,» said Phil Lind, Vice Chairman, Rogers Communications Inc. «With their stunning documentary Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky have created a vital portrait of a planet in crisis.

He doesn't take into account that some planets are better at spreading out the resources than others.

Taking into account the theme of this year's LA Design Challenge of emphasizing the need for minimizing the use of the planet's resources while building a car that's efficient, lightweight — no more than 1,000 lbs — comfortable, and safe without sacrificing the design elements that would make it attractive to consumers, Mazda is basing the MX - 0 on the ideology of the MX - 5, albeit using parts that are lighter and simpler than the ones found in the Miata, all while not compromising the car's overall performance.

His works include The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet, Nexus, Crux, More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement and Apex.

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Its more than just - Land on planet - Survive while collecting resources - Fly to new planet That's like saying all shooters are alike in their points of being a shooter.

It's more than some new - age hippie - dippie thinking, it's common sense; though common sense that seems lost on the people who exploit the planet's resources.

The Anglo - Dutch group said the BG takeover would expand its presence in controversial deep - water activities — many of the planet's untapped fossil fuel resources are now in ocean regions that are difficult to access — but said it would also increase its presence in liquefied natural gas, a cleaner fossil fuel than oil.

Resource extraction and climate change are impacting the far north more dramatically than anywhere else on the planet.

It has exploited the natural resources the Earth holds, and has modified the planet more than nature ever has.

(3) «Rather than invest scarce world resources in a quixotic campaign based on politicized and unreliable science, world leaders would do well to turn their attention to the real problems their people and their planet face.»

Somehow we reach the conclusions that dense, walkable, neighborhoods with shared resources are better than sprawling suburbs; that mobility and accessibility for everyone is better than a private car - oriented system that serves only the healthy and wealthy; and that the reduction of carbon footprints is essential to protect the planet's ecosystems.

Basically, it's easier to question climate science than accept its conclusions, because to accept the science would mean acknowledging the need for top - down actions to preserve the communal resource of our planet.

An internal memo, sent by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver's deputy minister Serge Dupont and released to Postmedia's Mike De Souza through access to information legislation, highlighted a section of a Conference Board of Canada report that said demand for fossil fuels could drop if countries attempt to prevent the planet's atmosphere from warming by more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

A series of resource wars and famines combined with many nations condemned to permanent poverty is more likely than anything else to ruin the whole planet.

The commentary, published in the British scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, estimated the impact of consuming the fuel from oilsands deposits â $» without factoring in greenhouse gas emissions associated with extraction and production â $» would be far less harmful to the planet's atmosphere than consuming all of the world's coal resources.

Lomborg, whose 2001 book suggested the planet should adapt to global warming rather than wasting resources trying to prevent it, has made his name by accusing scientists and others of exaggerating the extent and effects of climate change.

We are already using the resources of more than one - and - a-half planets.

Looking at the surface of the planet, it may seem ridiculous to suggest that there is a water shortage given that 70 % of the planet is covered in water, but when you note that only 3 % of this is freshwater and only 1 % of this is suitable for humans, now it becomes way more difficult to stretch those resources among the more than 6 billion people that inhabit this planet.

Design with recycled materials, more often than not, is more about making a statement than about recovering resources: as much as you want to say you're saving the planet for making lamps with PET bottles, the scope of your endeavor will never be as significant as, say, recycling thousands of them industrially.

7 Billion, 9 Billion, or 14 Billion, All Place Great Strain on Planet's Resources From an ecological perspective I have grave doubts that the planet could support that many humans at anything other than the lowest levels of resource consumption — as in what would be considered today abject poPlanet's Resources From an ecological perspective I have grave doubts that the planet could support that many humans at anything other than the lowest levels of resource consumption — as in what would be considered today abject poplanet could support that many humans at anything other than the lowest levels of resource consumption — as in what would be considered today abject poverty.

But even though we don't have to deal with that pesky creditor Gaia the same way we would a debt in our daily lives, we've still got to come to terms with the fact that humanity is spending our natural capital faster than our planet can regenerate it, and that bill's gonna come due sooner or later, in the form of major impacts on our food, water, energy, and natural resources.

Even accounting for the fact that the vast majority of the world's population consumes far, far less than this, natural resources and ecosystem services equal to 1.3 planets are consumed by humans.

In short, and you've heard TreeHugger and many others say it before, but it bears repeating: There are simply not enough resources on the planet to extend what is considered a normal, even essential, level of material consumption in wealthy nations to a planet with 6 billion and growing people: Resource Use Increasing Faster Than Population Consider some stats.

It is obvious that we consume carbon resources faster than the planet stores them.