Pursuing wise policies on curbing greenhouse gas emissions and on boosting resilience to extreme events both make sense, and President Obama is best suited to pursuing progress on both fronts.
Makower asked me about my assertion that it's better to focus on traits than goals in pursuing progress on energy and climate change and the like (encapsulated in this Dot Earth post).
At the root of this alienation, they argue, is a narrow positivist conception of rationality which sees rationality as an instrument for pursuing progress, power and technological control, and takes observation, measurement and the application of purely quantitative methods to be capable of solving all problems.
He says he wants his players to learn to live to serve people and relentlessly pursue progress in every way.
Draper leads them in their daily pledge to "promote freedom at all costs" and "drive, build, and pursue progress and change".
Advocates are increasingly pursuing progress outside of Washington, following some state-level victories on instituting background checks and preventing domestic abusers from purchasing firearms.
Many countries in history have pursued technological progress by first trying to piggyback on foreign inventions — tweaking and improving — before blazing their own trails.
The study provides the reader with an impression of which practical objectives have been pursued, what progress has been made in the past two decades, and what the future challenges are for using MMV systems in office buildings.
Analysis of this intricate problem is being actively pursued and progress in numerical simulations is already permitting increasing complexity to be handled [ 85, 86].
November 5, 2008, The President and the Planet, on a Budget Pursuing global progress on a budget — your ideas for a President Obama.
