Since food production requires about one-tenth of the energy consumed annually in the U.S., the energy embedded in wasted food might also correspond to a significant portion of energy consumption in the U.S. and represents an opportunity for avoided energy consumption.
Given the time lag between landscape and biodiversity change [39], [59], however, opportunities for avoiding regime-shifts through management and restoration activities are likely to exist for a period of time after the initial human impact, and before extinctions occur.
Opportunity costs in 53 districts for avoiding charcoal and agricultural expansion ranged between US$1.900 – 13.40 tCO2 (median US$3.90tCO2O2), indicating the high variability of opportunity costs within the country.
GPs frame the need for change in a positive way: as an opportunity for improvement rather than for avoiding risks.
The presence of toxins in nectar could be a selected trait in this case, if the delayed action of postingestive aversive learning by bees afforded plants the short-term opportunity for pollination while avoiding the negative fitness consequences associated with a rapidly learned rejection of flowers with nectar containing an unpalatable toxin.
They create an opportunity for consumers to avoid needless markups and enjoy premium service.
Many see assisted dying as an opportunity for individuals to avoid suffering and exercise their autonomy in the dying process.
That is because this increase provides a greater opportunity for us to avoid a high price, enabling the task to be processed when the rental rate is relatively low.
This step enabled disadvantaged groups (e.g. poor people in rural areas) to approach affordable cardiac care services at convenient places in a timely fashion and to cut down the extra costs of treatment (e.g. transportation fees, expenses for relatives, opportunity cost) thus avoiding the "medical poverty trap" [ 28- 30].
This kind of financialized corporate behavior contributes to both the government deficit, as corporations look for every opportunity to avoid paying taxes, and income inequality, as corporations favor payouts to shareholders over investment in innovation and job creation.
