Sentences with phrase «upon fossil fuels»

Yet our reliance upon fossil fuels also carries long - term consequences that are potentially even more dangerous.

Biofuels based upon further expansion of unsustainable, industrial agriculture policies will intensify deforestation, toxic pollution and dependence upon fossil fuel based fertilizers worldwide.

He decided to begin with the Caribbean, a region heavily dependent upon fossil fuel imports, where highly - polluting diesel generators dominate the electricity sector.

Eileen co-authored Powering the New Energy Future from the Ground Up: Priorities in City - Led Energy Innovation, a report on 34 American cities with fewer than 250,000 residents that are reducing their dependence upon fossil fuels for energy.

Alberta and Saskatchewan stand out in Canada with power grids still heavily reliant upon fossil fuels, but both recently released targets for significantly more electricity generation from renewable sources.

«With partners like Mass Audubon, we can replace this state's overdependence upon fossil fuels and create jobs with clean, local renewable energy sources,» Chretien said.

If we choose not to reduce emissions of heat - trapping gases and instead continue to rely upon fossil fuels, the average American could expect to see about 17 dangerously humid days in a typical summer in 2050 and about 35 in 2090.

Ideally, the solar irradiance is adequate, but until we come up with some technological breakthroughs in optical and / or thermal energy conversion, we are many many orders of magnitude away from anything even remotely qualified as sustainable, and thus still utterly dependent upon fossil fuels.]-RSB-

David, the head of Exxon Research, told a global warming conference financed by Exxon in October 1982 that «few people doubt that the world has entered an energy transition away from dependence upon fossil fuels and toward some mix of renewable resources that will not pose problems of CO2 accumulation.»

CTA also supports the development and use of new energy technologies that will move us away from our reliance upon fossil fuels and reduce humanity's impact on the environment and climate.

Ideally, the solar irradiance is adequate, but until we come up with some technological breakthroughs in optical and / or thermal energy conversion, we are many many orders of magnitude away from anything even remotely qualified as sustainable, and thus still utterly dependent upon fossil fuels.

Moreover, Pielke warns, the «more technologies deemed politically unacceptable» by climate advocates, such as next generation nuclear energy or carbon capture and storage, «the greater the challenge of accelerating decarbonization, the longer we'll depend upon fossil fuels, and the longer more than a billion people will lack basic access to energy.»

So it is with socio - environmentally destructive practices like continued rampant burning of and reliance upon fossil fuels (or industrialized monoculture farming, or industrial fishing, or any number of things)-- importantly, it's not the fossil fuels itself which are the problem here, rather it's the scale of the damage.

Unnatural disasters have become a fact of life dependent upon fossil fuels.