Sentences with phrase «technological fix»

When it comes to saving the seas, of course, the kind of technological fixes suggested here would be measures of last resort.

I agree that the climate problem can not be solved by technological fixes alone.

Why Electric Vehicles are a Climate Solution (March, 2016) Electric vehicles are entering mass production faster than any other technological fix for our oil habit, and they have a much lower climate impact than oil - powered cars.

An academic who doesn't stake his career on pleasing the establishment, Ozzie Zehner dares to put forth a down to earth and rigorously scientific response to our culture's obsession with technological fixes.

When the fossil fuel sources of these environmental impacts are made to pay the true cost of the pollution created, through mandated updated technological fixes such as improved and more efficient pollution control, limited coal sources, and other mediation devices, the true cost of coal will make other energy sources more viable.

«Research is indicating that investing in family planning is a cost - effective and permanent way of reducing CO2 emissions and climate change, compared with other technological fixes — and has many other environmental benefits, and no downsides.»

«That is the first task,» he said, «because without it all these various technological fixes will only add to the confusion.

Using this elegant technological fix, they achieved some of the highest density, highest performance CNTs ever made — especially given that they did this in an academic lab with less sophisticated equipment than a commercial fabrication plant.

tDCS isn't the only technological fix in the works for stroke.

If we engineer frogs to resist chytrid fungus infections, is this just a simplistic technological fix, or the only way to keep them from going extinct?

For us in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Australia the necessity of «hitting the brakes hard» also needs to mean constraining our lifestyles — at least until sometime in the future when sufficient technological fixes are reality.

There isn't a simple technological fix, all we can hope to do is slow the rate of greenhouse gas rise in the atmosphere, but we will still have to adapt to continual change.

Who knows what technological fixes may become available to us should the worst case scenarios be bourne out over time?

In the United States, a mature economy where electricity consumption is basically flat and domestic natural gas is newly plentiful, «clean coal» has been reduced to a political totem — a symbol to environmentalists and industrialists alike of the elusiveness of whiz - bang technological fixes for global warming.

He doesn't want technological fixes.

As we know, the largest issue with successful adoption of passive stategdies is the lure of a quick technological fix.

I was however, quite happy to explain the merits of a primarily market - based approach as against a centralised command - and - control solution, in which governments seek to determine and impose by fiat, particular technological fixes for climate change.

Kahan's own research has shown that people who might be identified as technophiles are more likely to concede that climate change is a problem if they are given information about possible technological fixes, such as geoengineering.

«China's example shows that we don't need to wait for a future technological fix for carbon removal.

In the absence of some new technological fix (not implausible, but there's nothing in sight as of 2017), there are three main possibilities

he report warns that political and economic elites in key emitting countries are turning to geoengineering as a would - be technological fix for the climate crisis, at the same time they refuse to break with an economic model based on fossil fuels and high emissions.

If you still have trouble remembering passwords, there are some technological fixes.

This is the fallacy of the «technological fix.»

Alas, they have also fooled everyone (including doctors) into the wrongheaded notion that the fundamental personal problems of life and death — bonding, growing, developing, becoming, being, declining, leaving, and grieving — are also open to technological fixes.

A couple using NFP is simply having sex, albeit during the wife's infertile period, whereas a couple on the pill is having sex while simultaneously eliminating its effects with a technological fix.

The answer is not to be found in some technological fix.

«GMOs are a technological fix that is meant to address complicated problems with just a single solution,» said Dr. Chito Medina, MASIPAG National Coordinator.

«We have a 1,000 -, probably 10,000 - year habit of taking the oceans for granted and moving from one species to the next, or replacing it with a technological fix like aquaculture.

-- Mark Fischetti's sobering overview of the situation and of the technological fixes that might help restore a measure of security, starting on page 112.

David Moschella, senior research consultant with the International Data Corporation, foresees a technological fix which could give the less well - off a chance to buy into the information age.

The positive thinkers at NASA have always assumed that a technological fix could be devised for any medical risks posed by space travel.

But so, too, was a technological fix.

«So, behavioral change by composting our organics could prevent virtually all the methane emissions from landfills without requiring any of the technological fixes and complex regulations.»

But focusing on such questions can mask much more subtle dangers inherent in emerging technologies, threats that aren't as amenable to technological fixes, and that we all too easily overlook.

Like it or not, there are technological fixes.

Another technological fix is hydrogen.

This leads me to believe that we do indeed need to «hit the brakes hard»: that we need to arrest the CO2 concentration well before the trillionth ton is emitted and that many of the technological fixes discussed in this thread will be too little too late.

There will always be a technological fix.