Sentence examples for sustainable limits from inspiring English sources

Our use of fresh water is also approaching or exceeding sustainable limits in many parts of the world and we're systematically destroying our arable land.

Instead of setting sustainable limits for the moose hunt, the game board has decided simply to kill the animals that prey on moose -- wolves and bears.

The fin whale was classified as an endangered species by the World Conservation Union, but Iceland claimed that it existed in numbers high enough to be hunted within sustainable limits.

The report concluded that - with more than 40% of commercial fish species in the north-east Atlantic and neighbouring seas outside sustainable limits - fishing has become a major threat not only to UK seas, but globally.

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"Our fisheries are worth billions, providing an important and healthy source of protein, yet European governments (including the UK) consistently fail to follow scientific advice and set total allowable catches over and above the sustainable limits advised by their fisheries experts.

As much as 85% of the world's fisheries are estimated either at or over a sustainable limit.

In 1888 a French economist, Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, calculated that a share of 12-13% of GDP (just above the Western average then) was the sustainable limit for a modern state.

The September figure was -1.8%, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics.And yet most economists refuse to believe that China's growth is much below its sustainable limit.

Global fish production is approaching its sustainable limit, with around 90% of the world's stocks now fully or overfished and a 17% increase in production forecast by 2025, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation FAOO).

Georgia officials insist that they do not expect Atlanta to reach a real day of water reckoning until 2030, when they have projected that demands on the Chattahoochee will reach a maximum sustainable limit.