As technology is not a perfect substitute for natural resources, we find ourselves back at the beginning and with the need to construct a new ethics that establishes how and whether to use the planet's finite resources, the responsibility we have today for the environment and nature, and even how we begin to recognize the Earth's "civil rights" (Canova, 2011).
Ms. Purdy substituted natural cocoa.
Try substituting natural toothpaste into your regimen.
In countries that lack hydrocarbons, other natural resources substitute.
It is to be noted that although external agricultural inputs can be substituted by organic management of natural resources, land tenure remains a main constraint to the labour investments needed for organic agriculture.
The benefit of utilizing copper slag in construction industry bestows as substitute to fine aggregates, preserves natural resources and no land management for disposal of copper slag.
The draft outcome document says: "Public and private investments in innovations and clean technologies will be needed, while keeping in mind that new technologies will not substitute for efforts to reduce waste or efficiently use natural resources".
People are not going to stop buying clothes, he says, "however, the fashion industry requires large amounts of natural resources, lots of which can be reduced, recycled, substituted or eliminated".
The materials reused in recycling serve as substitutes for raw materials obtained from such increasingly scarce natural resources as petroleum, natural gas, coal, mineral ores, and trees.
So Atala stopped aping cuisine that relies on imports or poor substitutes, and turned for inspiration to his country's natural resources, in particular to the Amazon.
