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- adjective Not
sustainable .
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Examples
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It is nonviolent noncooperation with whatever is nonsustainable.www. just-stop.org
Scientists Take Action If They Trust Their Own Evidence 2009
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Where nonsustainable damage has already occurred, drastic regulatory and punitive (negative incentive) action is justified.
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If we have already adopted a policy of sustainable development, then of course we choose the sustainable alternative, and the fact that it has a negative present value when calculated at a nonsustainable discount rate is simply irrelevant.
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Rates on these taxes could then be increased to keep damages within the incentive range and prevent spillover into the nonsustainable damage range.
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A third level of policy concern is therefore reached when pollution emissions and concentrations threaten to rise to the point that ecological criteria indicate irreversible, nonsustainable damage to the system.
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The proposed (and more defensible) use of tariffs (in conjunction with the 4P and NCD taxes) is to protect the domestic (and global) environment from private polluters and nonsustainable resource users, regardless of their country of origin or operation.
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BOB KANTOR, CEO, HANGER NETWORK: There are over 3.5 billion wire hangers that end up in U.S. landfills every year and they are made from nonsustainable resources, they're shipped half way around the world.
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Large current account and budget deficits have forced the United States to be dependent on China to, in fact, fund its debt by buying treasury bills and bonds, thereby keeping interest rates low and, in turn, funding the housing boom and consumer economy in a manner that is nonsustainable in the long run.
The Emerging Markets Century Antoine van Agtmael 2007
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This forest system is threatened by subdivision, nonsustainable logging, grazing and weed invasion.
Fy2000 Forest Legacy Funding ITY National Archives 2000
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Some portion of those nonsustainable exports should be treated as the sale of a capital asset, and entered on capital account.
Farewell speech to the World Bank by Herman E. Daly Herman E. Daly 1994
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