Sentence examples for imminent scarcity from inspiring English sources
For environmentalists, in particular, the Ehrlich-Simon story should instill great caution about predictions of imminent scarcity and soaring resource prices.
Impending scarcity is the reason.
Such a spike, they say, would drag the global economy into a severe recession.You do not need to believe such scenarios (which rest on the dubious assumption of imminent oil scarcity) to be worried about the impact of oil prices today.
The 1961 party congress adopted the imminent end of all scarcity as its official programme, thus making possibly the rashest and most falsifiable promise in the entire politics of the 20th century.
Scott proclaimed the invalidation, by technologically produced abundance, of all prior economic concepts based on scarcity; he predicted the imminent collapse of the price system and its replacement by a bountiful technocracy.
In this book, Jörg Friedrichs argues that industrial society itself is transitory, and he examines the prospects for our civilization's coming to terms with its two most imminent choke points: climate change and energy scarcity.
The question is, will peak water be followed by peak grain or is there enough unrealised technological potential remaining to raise yields enough to offset any imminent losses from wells going dry? Water scarcity is not our only challenge.
During the go-go years of the housing boom, in the early part of this century, the world economy was thriving, demand was indeed soaring, and many analysts were predicting an imminent "peak" in world production followed by significant scarcities.
So goes the refrain among a great number of North American ballet companies when talk turns to the scarcity of new works or ballet's imminent demise.
Prices reflect that scarcity.
