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She marched into the oil field reserves, surrounded it, without firing a shot, and secured it and held it.
A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths."
And as we speak now, we have about 40 billion dollars in reserves due to proper management of our finances.
This is the Alberta tar sands, the largest oil reserves on the planet outside of Saudi Arabia.
Trapped underneath the boreal forest and wetlands of northern Alberta are these vast reserves of this sticky, tar-like bitumen.
And we're doing this on the second largest oil reserves on the planet.
CA: So what happened was that, through increased ability to use fracking technology, the calculated reserves of natural gas kind of exploded and the price plummeted, which made wind uncompetitive.
She feeds the larvae by regurgitating from her fat reserves.
So, despite what it says in the Bible, about, you know, "Look to the ant, thou sluggard," in fact, you could think of those ants as reserves.
You know, we've built up reserves.
But what we have to recognize now is that we are reaching the ecological limits that our planet can bear, and when we chop down forests, as we are every day, to grow more and more food, when we extract water from depleting water reserves, when we emit fossil fuel emissions in the quest to grow more and more food, and then we throw away so much of it, we have to think about what we can start saving.
Secondly, we need to create huge biodiversity reserves on the planet, and start moving them around.
What is the current state of the world's phosphorus reserves?
The black line represents predictions for phosphorus reserves.
We have a technology that works, and one that, if used correctly, will alleviate some of the pressure we are putting on the world's phosphorus reserves.
The 20th century has shown enormous cognitive reserves in ordinary people that we have now realized, and the aristocracy was convinced that the average person couldn't make it, that they could never share their mindset or their cognitive abilities.
The first questions is, how do we manage our carbon reserves in tropical forests?
There are huge coal reserves that are sitting out there, and we've got to start thinking of them as biological energy, because if we keep treating them as chemical energy, or engineering energy, we're going to be in deep doo-doo.
We have reserves that can scale us up to large numbers.
The most basic function of bodily fat is self-storage of food reserves.
So you get central bankers like Mark Carney, the head of the UK Central Bank, saying the vast majority of the carbon reserves are unburnable.
Harmful practices, such as bottom trawling, can be banned altogether, and we can establish marine reserves closed to all fishing to help ecosystems restore themselves.
Today, more than half our country is protected, as national parks, nature reserves and wildlife sanctuaries.
Each of the 188 members of the IMF hold SDR quotas as part of their foreign exchange reserves.
So those extra reserves that were printed in 2009, in the end, for developed market countries at least, weren't really needed.
If the inflationary consequences of using SDRs in this way are benign, it could be used to justify the additional, extra issuance of SDRs, say, every five years, again, with the commitment that developed-market countries would direct their share of the new reserves to the Green Climate Fund.
So, for example, the issuance of these extra SDRs every five years could be capped, such that this international currency is never more than five percent of global foreign exchange reserves.
And just to think what amazing things could be done with that money, consider this: in 2009, Norway promised one billion dollars of its reserves to Brazil if they followed through on their goals on deforestation.
Throughout history, most currency, including the US dollar, was linked to valuable commodities and the amount of it in circulation depended on a government's gold or silver reserves.
And when more quickly renewed sources can’t meet the demand, we start pumping it out of our finite underground reserves.
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