Sentences with phrase «world consumption levels»
The 107 million tons of grain that went to U.S. ethanol distilleries in 2009 was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels.
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By 2035, the IEA estimates that world coal consumption needs to fall by 30 percent from current levels, while global oil usage will have to drop by 12 percent.
Why can't they increase their consumption and investment levels rather than relying on the U.S. economy to buy their consumer goods and capital goods for surplus dollars that have no better use than to accumulate in the world's central banking system as excess reserves?
What does it mean, concretely, as applied to consumption, possessions, poverty and wealth, to live responsibly in a world that cries for justice and that probably can not sustain American levels of consumption?
«Thus an environmentally enlightened development process necessarily demands a new culture, which will be: egalitarian, with reduced disparities between rich and poor and power equally shared by men and women; resource - sharing; participatory; frugal, when compared to the current consumption patterns of the rich; humble, with a respect for the multiplicity of the world's cultures and lifestyles; and, it will aim at greater self - reliance at all levels of society.»
(The Vancouver - based ecologist William Rees points out that to support the world's present population at North American consumption levels «would require the equivalent of two more planet Earths.»
Pacific Beverages designed the plant to ultimately have an annual capacity of 1.5 million hectolitres, while targeting a reduction in water usage to 2.2 l / 1 litres of beer produced for the Australian market, which has one of the world's top 10 annual beer consumption levels, at 83 litres a head.
Not only is it becoming more popular around the world, in Australia alone the wine consumption has increased by a striking 25 % while dropping the beer consumption levels by a staggering 35 %.
Meanwhile Andrew White, AusVeg Deputy CEO said, «Given that Australian producers are required to comply with some of the world's strictest quality assurance standards before their products are made available for public consumption, it is high time the same level of scrutiny is applied to imported produce to ensure public safety.»
Though the United States was not the heaviest coffee - drinking nation at the time (Nordic countries, Belgium, and Netherlands all had comparable or higher levels of per capita consumption), due to its sheer size, it was already the largest consumer of coffee in the world by 1860, and, by 1920, around half of all coffee produced worldwide was consumed in the US.
China was the largest bottled water market in the world in 2015 with $ 16.4 bn in retail sales, and consumption is on the rise largely due to higher income levels and growing awareness of bottled water's health benefits, according to Mintel's Bottled Water China 2016 report.
DeSouza said this rate of growth will be unsustainable if the level of consumption in developing countries reaches that of the industrialized world.
Spread the cost of reducing fossil - fuel consumption over the next century, and it turns out that the world would reach the same level of prosperity in 102 years that it is now projected to reach in 100.
The State of the World Population 2009 report says that population levels will affect countries» abilities to adapt to the immediate effects of climate change, although the longer - term influence of population growth on climate change will depend on future economic, technological and consumption trends.
But given an extraordinary spike in beef consumption after World War II, as well as a parallel explosion in industrial diversity, cows were suddenly fractionated right down to the molecular level.
They will arrive in the poor regions, but aspire to income and consumption levels of the rest of the world.
A rapid population growth, coupled with rising levels of consumption, is placing ever - larger demands on the world's land - based natural capital.
«Total recoverable reserves of coal around the world are estimated at 1,001 billion tons — enough to last approximately 180 years at current consumption levels»
The rest of the developed world has banned the use of this chemical in milk destined for human consumption because such milk shows high levels of cancer - causing hormones and lower nutritional value.
Consumption of certain oils is practiced in some parts of the world as it was concluded that high level of oils was essential to brain development.
The World Health Organization recommended less than 10 % of calories from added sugar based on its assessment of higher consumption and adverse health outcomes.4 With the evidence of higher added sugar consumption and adverse health outcomes accumulating, the American Heart Association recommended that total calories from added sugar should be less than 100 calories / d for most women and less than 150 calories / d for most men.5 Our analysis suggests that participants who consumed greater than or equal to 10 % but less than 25 % of calories from added sugar, the level below the Institute of Medicine recommendation and above the World Health Organization / American Heart Association recommendation, had a 30 % higher risk of CVD mortality; for those who consumed 25 % or more of calories from added sugar, the relative risk was nearly tripled (fully adjusted HR, 2.75).
With humanity's ecological footprint of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person means to say that to sustain the current population on Earth of 7 billion people would take 18.9 billion gha (2.7 gha x 7 billion people) which is higher than the 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water on Earth, a fact that indicates that already exceeded the regenerative capacity of the planet in the average level of current world consumption.
Standard fuel consumption is a mere 4.2 liters per 100 km (56.00 US mpg), which translates into CO2 emissions of 110 g / km (177.03 g / mile), a new record low level in the sports car world.
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«The world doesn't have enough resources to allow for raising China's consumption rates, let alone those of the rest of the world, to our levels.»
With German levels of consumption, a planet of 9 - 10 billion in midcentury would require three times as much energy as the world does today.
The developing world can not ever even begin to approach the high level of consumption maintained in the United States and Europe, because there are simply not enough resources on the planet.
Right now, China still accounts for about half of the world's coal consumption, even though its consumption level has fallen for the past two years.
The technology currently available for installing distributed renewable energy in developing countries can not yet raise all of the world's poorest to the levels of per capita energy consumption previously reached in the west, but developed countries are already reducing overall energy demand and increasing energy efficiency, rendering historical patterns of energy usage the wrong benchmark for global standards in any case.
rw (05:22:03): «In a world where climate change has always been the norm, climate change is now taken as punishment for sinful levels of consumption.»
In a world where climate change has always been the norm, climate change is now taken as punishment for sinful levels of consumption.
These two consecutive disappointing harvests have reduced this year's projected world carryover stocks of grain, the amount in the bin when the new harvest begins, to 24 percent of annual consumption, the lowest level in 20 years.
The analysis found that if everyone in the world had the same Ecological Footprint as the average Calgary resident, we would need five Earths to maintain that level of resource consumption.
Fuller gets those numbers by using a totally different approach, one which doesn't assume practically the entire world will reach energy consumption levels matching those of the United States.
The estimated value of global fossil - fuel consumption subsidies decreased by 15 % to $ 260 billion in 2016, the lowest level since the International Energy Agency started tracking these subsidies in the World Energy Outlook (WEO) ten years ago.
According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 715 exajoules) by 2030 — a 44 % increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today in 2009).
Even if powered by clean energy and done in the most efficient manner possible, are natural resource consumption levels associated with a Developed World «good life» scalable to a population of 8 or 9 billion people?
According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 7.15 exajoules) by 2030 - a 44 % increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today).
As a result, TMD and Idemitsu succeeded in achieving the world's highest level of performance for an organic EL display screen of 2.2 - inch QVGA (240x320) format suitable for mobile equipment applications, with power consumption of 100 mW (based on typical movie screen images, defined by 30 % brightness of a full - white screen) and luminosity half - life of 60K hours (based on a full - white screen at 200 cd / m2).
For perspective, the estimated 114 million tons of grain used to produce ethanol in 2009 in the United States is the food supply for 370 million people at average world grain consumption levels.
... But Developed World Needs to Acknowledge It's Greater Per Capita Impact We also need to acknowledge that the emissions of one person in the developed world, based simply on our levels of natural resource consumption and how our societies are structured from an energy - use standpoint, is far greater than a person living in a developing couWorld Needs to Acknowledge It's Greater Per Capita Impact We also need to acknowledge that the emissions of one person in the developed world, based simply on our levels of natural resource consumption and how our societies are structured from an energy - use standpoint, is far greater than a person living in a developing couworld, based simply on our levels of natural resource consumption and how our societies are structured from an energy - use standpoint, is far greater than a person living in a developing country.
Our rates of resource consumption and environmental destruction are grossly unsustainable and there is no possibility that the per capita levels of resource use in rich countries can be kept up for long or spread to all the world's people.
With energy consumption being a major concern, Bitfury mentioned that the data center boasts a power usage effectiveness (PUE) level of 1.05 or lower, and thus stands as one of the «world's most energy - efficient» operations.