Can Technology Spare the Earth?
Evolving efficiencies in our use of resources suggest that technology can restore the environment even as population grows (NOTE: The color figures are at the end of this document for…
Evolving efficiencies in our use of resources suggest that technology can restore the environment even as population grows (NOTE: The color figures are at the end of this document for…
…1992b. Environmental Equity: Reducing Risk for All Communities. Volume 2: Supporting Document. Document No. 230-R- 92-008A. Washington, DC. U.S. General Accounting Office. 1983. Siting of Hazardous Waste Landfills and Their Correlation with Racial…
…France a 0.8 rate of decline would be required to attain 92 percent of 1990 emissions for the same period. To allocate this decline among the four forces, we estimated…
…means big individual ZEPPs because the size of generating plants grows even faster than use, though in spurts. Plants grow because large is cheap, if technology can cope. Although the last wave…
…feed needed to make meat declined, and the hectares needed to grow the feed lessened as yields rose. Net, about 2% less US land each year made meat. Let me…
…example, materials, physical structures, devices and machines) and software (rules and recipes for behaviour). Illustrative innovations of hardware are cisterns and dams to store water, tractors to speed rapid harvests,…
…Presse Lull in shipping activity gives scientists chance to listen to sounds of the ocean https://ca.news.yahoo.com/lull-shipping-activity-gives-scientists-042755282.html German: Internationales Forscherteam untersucht Tierlaute im Ozean während Corona-Krise https://de.nachrichten.yahoo.com/internationales-forscherteam-untersucht-tierlaute-ozean-214115152.html French: Un réseau mondial…
…of decades, the removal of tropical forests has been estimated at 1 percent per year. Until overcome by better livelihoods, cheap land, cheaper fuels, superior alternative wood products in the…
…hears hence, when we are likely to number ten billion, yield as much food as today’s potato fields in Ireland, wheat fields in France, or corn fields in Iowa, large…
We post Jesse’s “Nuclear and Renewable Heresies“, delivered as a plenary address to the Canadian Nuclear Association 10 March 2005 in Ottawa….