Wasteful methods -- the indiscriminate killing of juvenile fish and protected species along with the desired catch in mile-long purse seine nets -- galvanized him.
Unless consumers and businesses take action to use resources more efficiently – from energy and water to food and waste, and raw materials such as precious metals – then their increasing scarcity, rising prices and today's wasteful methods of using them will drive up costs yet further and reduce Europe's standard of living, Potočnik warned.
Eliminating former wasteful methods of production and applying modern technologies and managerial techniques provided further scope for a sustained burst of rapid catch-up growth.But just as the commodity boom has ended, the easy gains in output have also been exhausted.
Among other recreations, the future President was into "roof hits," a non-wasteful method of smoking pot in a car (usually that white classmate's V.W. bus, dubbed the Choomwagon) with the windows rolled up.
Implosion methods needed to be developed for uranium in place of the wasteful gun method, and composite uranium-plutonium cores were needed now that plutonium was in short supply because of the problems with the reactors.
Public safety has been jeopardised by it, but beyond the specifics of that, exposure would reveal – all cost-efficiency rhetoric apart – how cynical the motives and wasteful the methods of privatisation actually are.
I knew that the seas were being overfished - due to modern, environmentally-catastrophic and wasteful fishing methods like bottom trawling - but to what extent, I didn't know.
The "anthropic principle," in its strongest form, holds therefore that the universe was designed to create us; it does not say why an omnipotent God would choose to breed an intelligent species by such a lengthy, wasteful, and cruel method as evolution.
Such roundabout shipping methods are unnecessarily wasteful.
"In much of North America," he writes, "their methods were outrageously wasteful".
Even though it does mean that more private money pours into health care, such a system is less likely to curb wasteful spending than more sophisticated methods such as fund-holding GP s in Britain.
