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Yet true adaptation to changing conditions is held hostage by the inordinately powerful 1% that is heavily invested in non-renewables.
Wendi L. Adamek: Life's Best Inventions Wendi L. Adamek 2011
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Yet true adaptation to changing conditions is held hostage by the inordinately powerful 1% that is heavily invested in non-renewables.
Wendi L. Adamek: Life's Best Inventions Wendi L. Adamek 2011
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The competition is divided into five categories: energy efficiency and infrastructure; renewables; non-renewables; transportation and deployment.
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Certainly, delivery of goods and services will be diminished by: a. exhausting non-renewables, in particular our diminishing oil reserves
Humans find themselves in a heck of a mess: Overpopulation 2009
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The ultimate point being that seeking increased production of “non-renewables” is necessary at present and the obstructionism cited in the post above is wrong.
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But what happens when a civilization that relies exclusively on non-renewables including big hydro hits peak oil?
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Locke apparently didn't assess another option in front of the province, namely 100% exclusion of non-renewables with a cap.
Locke on Equalization: Prelim views Ed Hollett 2007
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Bear in mind that the original promise of 100% exclusion of non-renewables from the calculation is politically unattainable.
Fair deal of bureaucratic gobbledygook Ed Hollett 2007
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It might have also been possible to propose some arrangement, as suggested by Ken Boessenkool in which an additional 50% of non-renewables were excluded in some fashion based on an express commitment that the revenue would be directed to debt reduction.
Fair deal of bureaucratic gobbledygook Ed Hollett 2007
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And if 100% exclusion of non-renewables is such a good idea, then maybe applying the cap is better than what we have now.
Economics: the dismal science Ed Hollett 2007
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