Sentences with phrase «subsistence living»

Wherever there is subsistence living, it is usually because there is little or no access to modern, reliable forms of energy.

That low cost energy would allow them to bring themselves out of subsistence living and be more able to adapt to potential climate shifts, whether they be human caused or natural.

If you wonder why the «green» movement can propose solutions to «might be problems» that require large swaths of humanity be relegated to subsistence living, don't agonize over why, just understand what under - girds their political philosophy of life.

The loss of this income will last for the foreseeable future, will make his living expenses higher than his income, will barely allow him to maintain a subsistence living, and will make it impossible for him to repay the student loans.

Also, wage growth has been stagnant over the last decade, and incomes as a whole aren't there to support much beyond first world subsistence living.

For more than a decade, she and members of her extended family lived way, way off the grid in the forests of Canada, combining a groovy, free - love lifestyle with sometimes bleak subsistence living.

Razza makes a subsistence living by filling plastic balls with small stones, which he sells as toys at the local market.

That is, if you subscribe to the conventional idea that Stone Age people were uncultured nomads, eking out a subsistence living in the wild.

I don't think anyone wants us to go back to subsistence living.»

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has reported that the mining could remove 94 miles of streams and 5,350 acres of wetlands that contain about 90 % of fish vital to the subsistence life.

Those most at risk are people whose recent ancestors led subsistence lives.

The 1800s saw the arrival of colonists who managed to eke out subsistence livings through a combination of farming, ranching fishing and mining.

But if people are living subsistence lives, they are going to do whatever they need to so thye can survive, thats it.

Not exact matches

When he retiress he has no home and no equity to use to buy one, too many retired pastors live on less than subsistence levels.

It feels like a carrot dangled to primitive people that were struggling with basic subsistence, with little hope of a comfortable life in this world.

His parents were subsistence farmers who, like others, had been forced by their new masters to give some of their land to the state so while they were never hungry, they lived extremely simply.

Since then, as in the United States, agribusiness has replaced subsistence farming and there have been vast movements of population to cities often unable to provide people with the minimum facilities of urban life.

They are unparalleled in their power to unleash the creative energies which can raise living standards above subsistence.

The best news is that the economic development that can quickly raise Third World standards of living far beyond subsistence is already happening.

For, «political systems incapable of counter-balancing unusually swollen middle class, myriads of white collar jobs, non-local means of subsistence, irresistible passion for consumer goods and a social life making sense only in the idiom of science and technology hardly grant an easy walk - over for anti-development movements.

It is clear that some groups, especially those who live from the investment of capital, will gain by increasing the size of markets and that labor now living above the global subsistence level will lose.

The earth, and especially the portion of the earth out of which we originate is the very source of our life, subsistence and existence.

Their lives were calibrated to subsistence, mine to diversion.

Stepfathers are widespread not only in modern industrial societies but also in subsistence - level societies as well.6, 51,52 Many studies have found that, compared with resident biological fathers, stepfathers invest less in the children who live with them, both in the United States37, 39,53 and other cultures.54 - 56 Stepchildren are more likely to have emotional and behavioural problems than resident genetic offspring, 39,40 although there is evidence that children who have close relationships with their stepfathers have better outcomes.41, 57

Possessed economy and quality of life above subsistence - level farming, and did not depend on unusually rich natural resources.

Crucially, subsistence payments have not increased in line with the cost of living.

Some supported the proposal on equity and fairness grounds, since elites were already perceived to benefit disproportionately from the state's resources, through special - interest appropriations of oil wealth, and because it would bring a huge benefit to low - income Alaskans and those living at a subsistence level.

Patricia Cochran, an Inupiat from Northwestern Alaska, is talking about the native foods of her childhood: «We pretty much had a subsistence way of life.

When the park was created, officials had recognized the rights of the half - dozen families that lived year - round inside the park, including Antonio and Geraldo, and allowed them to continue to raise livestock and pursue their subsistence lifestyles.

«In this high mountain desert, water is a critically precious resource and the use of metal - polluted waters for irrigation may have substantial detrimental impacts on the lives of subsistence farmers,» said Bill Strosnider, researcher on the project.

Such an attitude derives from an inelasticity of mind which takes for its criterion a home - loving population living on highly durable soils and growing food for both subsistence and export.

Every now and then the ship leaks oil, threatening coral reefs, marine life and subsistence fishing.

Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are intertwined with the fate of species such as ice seals, narwhals, walruses and polar bears.

To drive this point home, Talbott quotes Denis Goulet in The Barefoot Expert: «It is discomforting for a sophisticated technical expert from a rich country to learn that men who live on the margin of subsistence and daily flirt with death and insecurity are sometimes capable of greater happiness, wisdom, and human communion than he is, notwithstanding his knowledge, wealth, and technical superiority.»

Caribou are among the most important subsistence animals for people living in the North, and the Bathurst caribou herd is particularly critical to the area's socioeconomic security.

Light - fingered chimpanzees are changing the way subsistence farmers make a living in Africa by causing them to grow different crops and spend more time guarding their goods.

While human neurological, behavioural and physiological genetics is a vast field, little such research has been conducted among people living in non-industrialized or subsistence environments.

It is not surprising to learn that Coogler based his vision of Wakanda on what he observed during a research trip to South Africa, Kenya and, most notably, Lesotho, a land - locked constitutional monarchy headed by King Letsie III, where 80 percent of the population relies on subsistence farming and the majority lives in extreme poverty, despite lucrative diamond reserves.

This is kind of a minor miracle, given the well - publicized woes of the critical world, and even though I'm way below the poverty line and living more - or-less subsistence level, I'm perfectly happy to have made it so far.

The Hunger Games is set in a future North America where the nation of Panem is divided between the elites in the capital and those living at subsistence levels in the twelve surrounding districts.

As citizens all over the world are fully aware, tensions, conflicts, and wars are persisting, and national, regional, and international institutions are powerless, even when limiting their role to avoiding the permanent deterioration of people's living conditions and means of subsistence.

The book on which the film is based went so far as to claim that «a teaching career guarantees a life of subsistence earning — month to month and hand to mouth.»

When his father was young, the boy says, he expected to live his life as a subsistence farmer, like his family had for generations.

With environmental and cultural forces threatening their subsistence way of life, Ray holds onto the hope that his grandsons will one day pass on the traditional knowledge to their children.

It was alleged Goulty lived within travelling distance of the schools, and the EFA found there was no approved travel and subsistence policy across the trust.

85 % of the inhabitants live in traditional subsistence agricultural societies.

The need for work comes from somewhat unfortunate life circumstances (e.g. divorce and some unwise financial sacrifices) that left him with only subsistence income at this point in life.

I see older people with disabilities all the time, particularly men, they live a subsistence level life and it's almost as if they are invisible, no one even sees them yet alone pays them any mind.

The indigenous Mayan communities that still exist today are the Mopan, Yucatec, and Q'eqchi» Maya who primarily live in southern Belize and engage in subsistence farming.

The beach isn't worth visiting but Klong Mad, the small fishing hamlet with a cluster of houses built around an inlet is quite interesting as you'll get an insight into how subsistence fishermen live.