Sentences with word «unsustainability»

True, later some debt - relief was offered to Greece when the utter unsustainability of its existing debt could not be overlooked.

It does appear to me we have constructed an endlessly - expanding, leviathan - like global political economy that is on the verge of unsustainability in the the relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home we inhabit.

Social injustices are among these occurrences, as are instances of ecological unsustainability.

Its director Lester Brown, caught on to the concept of the ecologically sustainable society and wrote Building a Sustainable Society (1981) in which he diagnosed the present state of global unsustainability and suggested paths to sustainability.

The first step is to squarely face the fiscal unsustainability of the current culture.

In addition, the low dividend quality score of NA out of a possible score of 100, points to unsustainability as well.

But we also shouldn't rely on the long - term unsustainability of that model, or the inevitable boom - and - bust cycles of our economy, to keep CO2 emissions in check.

When it comes to Agenda 21, the paranoia and conspiracy theorists just muddy the waters on sustainability, which basically is an effort to develop responsibly while maintaining the world's beauty, which we've got plenty of here in the mountains... As a friend said to me, «if not sustainability, do you want unsustainability?»

Kevin has been preaching unsustainability for years now.

In this new world of low - carbon, waste and unsustainability in the use of natural resources should be banned.

It wasn't a bad way to start a business, but Louis quickly recognized the vulnerability and unsustainability of such a business plan.

To avoid that, it's important to quickly recognize the unsustainability of that arrangement and consider other potential options.

There is no fundamental problem you are trying to fix in the sense that there is no unsustainability in the current external position of the United States,» he added.

The sequence of crisis and policy responses after mid-2007 was a gradual recognition of the unsustainability of the euro - area policy framework.

Not only are those sensible ways of living but they're also things that create community, interdependence, the sort of life that we're made for together — and break the patterns of unsustainability and also land us in a place where we're the wealthiest country in the world and also one of the most lonely, medicated and depressed people in the world.

And with 7billion on the planet (and growing), these «young people missing millions from their generation» should be thankful that clusters of cells can be medically removed, preventing unwanted births and (perhaps) even saving the human population from growing to a point of unsustainability.

While we have no means of calculating analogous figures for the globe, the ecological devastation and increasing suffering of the poor in many parts of the world suggest to us that increased GNP in many Third World Countries is accompanied by increased misery and unsustainability.

And the particular practices and patterns associated with these assumptions accentuate the contribution of all our institutions to the unsustainability of our society.

In response to injustice and unsustainability, God provides possibilities for creative transformation and inclusive love.

But, given the unsustainability of pure democracy, it's not surprising that by the Eighties we had the bourgeois bohemian mixture of oligarchy and democracy, with bourgeois trumping bohemian at every turn.

The unsustainability of the present rate of use of forest products is not important.

Thus there appear at century's close certain words which were unknown at century's beginning «unsustainability» «carrying capacity,» «the integrity of creation,» and «sustainable development.»

We conservatives also see clearly, of course, that the truth about God is necessarily and beneficially embodied in the traditional, relational institution we call the church, and we see the idiocy (in the precise sense) and so the unsustainability of the «individualistic» Protestant view that it's possible to know the personal, relational God all alone through one's own conscience.

Nicaraguan scholar Xabier Gorostiaga argues that in this era of globalization humanity is perceived as fundamentally one, with a common destiny that is the result of a technological revolution in information and communication and the awareness of the unsustainability of the current way of life3.

They point out the high social and ecological costs of past technological solutions to the production of food, such as the Green Revolution, and the unsustainability of its practices as oil becomes scarce.

The loss of biodiversity is just one indication of unsustainability: deforestation contributes twofold to global warming, by releasing carbon stores and by eliminating a vital source of carbon absorption, the trees themselves.

Designed to raise awareness of the unsustainability of the meat and livestock industry around the globe, the not - for - profit initiative is asking people to pledge to go meat free for just one day.

In a blog post entitled The Future of Food, the computer entrepreneur and philanthropist discussed the rise in meat - eating over the past 20 years and commented on its unsustainability in a world whose population is increasing and resources dwindling.

But what really bothers me with this recommendation is the unsustainability of the coconut palm sugar industry.

Research has anticipated the unsustainability of attempting to contain people who are displaced as a result of geopolitical shocks and the structural reasons for and consequences of lack of collaboration and discretion, but these are longstanding challenges that policy does not want to hear.

To be fair, fiscal watchdogs have long decried the unsustainability of the pension system, saying it's built on a house of cards that could tumble at any moment.

Throughout the years of Labour government, the unsustainability of this was obvious.

Even die - hard enthusiasts for an appointed second chamber have to recognise the unsustainability of the current system.

Flagships «Dexter» and «Weeds» are both overwritten and under - thought, jumping sharks regularly beginning somewhere around the middle of their first seasons and betraying their unsustainability faster than «Heroes».

9 Raworth (2012) conceives this as a doughnut with «environmental ceiling» as the outer layer, breaching which would lead to unsustainability, and «social foundation» as the inner one, breaching which would lead to the hole of socio - economic inequities and deprivation, and the space between the two as the «safe and just space for humanity».

«All of this points back to the unsustainability of the state's pension system,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany - based think tank.

The unsustainability of the collector - car price bubble scares me, so it's comforting that a lack of capital makes the «$ 3,500 and under» category the heart of my old - car investment strategy.

Identical dividend yields may hide important differences in the quality of companies arising from financial distress, unsustainability of profits, and poor accounting practices, sometimes even extending to fraud.

Dripping with crystalline shapes and glass beads, it addresses architecture's failings to accommodate the growing population and the unsustainability of the modern world.

This exhibition highlights Continuous Reproduction, 1993, an early series of twenty - five gelatin silver prints that appropriates a propaganda image of young peasant girls to comment on the unsustainability of Mao's utopic vision.

Rehearsals in Instability curated by Rózsa Farkas presents a group of artworks at Vienna's Galerie Andreas Huber that display certain disbelief — instead of critique — in the situation outlined by the press release of the «current state of capitalism» and «the rising awareness of the unsustainability in this world».

Shards of porcelain, the ashes of his own burned paintings, and twists of wire combine with salvaged objects — the detritus of popular culture and the street — and spray paint, oils and acrylics in works that reflect anxiety around the unsustainability of mass consumer society.

And yet, the duo's refreshing focus on the little considered material excess and unsustainability of art fairs revitalizes this old topic.

Widening inequalities of wealth and income, the world - wide disruption of the physical climate system and the loss of millions of species that sustain life are the grossest manifestations of unsustainability.