If the issue of resource scarcity is similar, the wagers today are a bit bigger.
Now to the underlying reasons for the Chilean court action: local environmental concerns and resource scarcity.
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In the short term, he said, habitat loss, invasive species and resource scarcity pose the gravest threats.
If we are to tackle the issues of poverty and resource scarcity, we have essentially only a handful of options.
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On the contrary, many of his less-provocative arguments and insights, especially those related to resource scarcity, appear close to prophetic at times.
His book highlights six mega-trends causing instability: unfavourable demographics, resource scarcity, climate change, geopolitical rebalancing, indebtedness and fiscal issues, and rising inequality.
And face it, the world suffers overall resource scarcity, and shortages of any critical commodity (like water) translate into scarcity of them all.
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You can hedge against catastrophes like runaway inflation and resource scarcity.
According to a recent survey by PwC, most bosses believe that resource scarcity is a bigger threat to their medium-term prospects than climate change more broadly.
Law is deeply rooted in industrial-era ideas of resource scarcity.
In these times of resource scarcity, donors owe it both to themselves and to their communities to give to the highest-performing organizations working on the issues they care most about.
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This is why one of the most vital projects of this new century, defined by climate change and growing energy and resource scarcity, is to figure out a way to build these variables back into our economic system.
We already have a system to deal with resource scarcity, one that deals very effectively with changing relative prices, with the different ways that can be used to achieve the same goal which being best depending upon those relative prices.
In other words, scarcity of any important commodity or natural resource increases the scarcity of others.
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In business this is known as manufactured scarcity for resource management.
In other words, they are a sort of savior-entity attempting to address the issue of scarcity and resource depletion by rescuing Earth (and Mars, as well as many other planets) from self-destruction by pooling our resources with a potentially unlimited number of other planets throughout the universe.
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He told the Resource 2012 forum on water, food and energy scarcity that the development of shale oil and gas was "quite extraordinary", and that the world was now entering the "latest age of primary energy".
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