Presenting his budget at a state theater in Albany, Mr. Cuomo sounded stern, even angry, about the way past governors and lawmakers had built inexorable spending growth into future budgets, even as he urged the Legislature to join him in reining in government expenditures.
Our slide into the future is inexorable.
We are not mere bystanders in some inexorable march into a future.
China and Israel have both drawn the conclusion that the electrification of transport is a critical step in moving towards a more sustainable future, breaking the inexorable connection between economic growth and oil dependence.
The gentle people of a once powerful country stared weak-eyed at a future of apparently inexorable decline, shaken by natural disasters, slumping stockmarkets, falling prices, a shrinking population, and growing irrelevance even scorn abroad.
One needs go back to Bodman's letter, because it gives a clearer and frightening picture of this administration and its Department of Energy's priorities and the inexcusable loss of near eight years of precious, precious time in dealing with what is perhaps the nation's most inexorable and threatening danger to its future.
This seems to be because investors like to be on the "winning side"; they feel much better owning a technology stock, where it is possible to dream of exponential growth, than an engineering stock, where the future seems to point to inexorable decline.
But nor can it be absolute in the Newtonian mould, where the future already exists, by dint of inexorable logic.
The future has no lobby, so there are inexorable pressures favoring present consumption over future investment.
Bottom line: whether you accept the environmental think tank's future vision, there is no denying the inexorable law of supply and demand's effect on the earth's remaining natural resources.
