Sentence examples for planetary problems from inspiring English sources

e360: If you look back in the history of the world, are there planetary problems that we've solved this way?

Can the planet support so much economic activity?Many policymakers adopt a top-down and Western-centric approach to such planetary problems.

Corporations might not be overly concerned about climate change, resource scarcity, food insecurity and so on today, but you can bet they will be tomorrow when these planetary problems set their profits plummeting.

Five years ago, at the earth summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders agonised about a host of planetary problems, from the destruction of forests to the loss of biodiversity.

"Now it is a planetary problem," he said.

All this did was make us sound preachy and annoying, and like we blamed ordinary people for a planetary problem.

Even some early devotees of a system of tradable emissions permits believe that it will not work for carbon dioxide, by definition a planetary problem.

The bloc, which includes a wide range of economies, from relatively well-to-do Singapore to strugglers like Haiti, wins points for being at the front lines of a planetary problem, but its political clout at the negotiating table is uncertain.

While global warming is a planetary problem, Luber stresses the importance of avoiding boilerplate adaptation strategies.

Unlike air pollution which we can see and smell, most think plastic is harmless, or merely an aesthetic eyesore when seen on the ground or in the water, Woodring says, and is perceived of as less of a planetary problem by the public.

Looking ahead, we not only have to deal with these planetary scale problems but also find ways to feed and produce a decent quality of life for at least two more billion than the seven billion people already here.