QUERY: uzhe + poka = ???

[colkitto]

How about "is no longer possible, and will remain so for the foreseeable 
future"?


> Kim Braithwaite wrote:
>
>> Heck of a stumper. Without more context, is there the faintest chance of 
>> a misprint,  or something inadvertently omitted? Don't know if a reading 
>> of "uzhe VOZMOZHNO ... " would mean anything either.
>
> They're talking about options for energy sustainability in a world running 
> out of oil. One nightmare scenario is that population continues to grow, 
> and eventually we hit a wall where we can't provide food and heat for 
> everyone, and billions die. But they regard a world population of a 
> billion or so as sustainable for the long term, so part of the discussion 
> is, "how do we get there from here?"
>
> After ruling out a Ponzi scheme where the working-age population works 
> harder and harder to support a growing population of children and 
> retirees, the authors conclude thus:
>
> ... Поэтому во всех рекомендациях предлагается стабилизация 
> народонаселения, сопровождаемая ростом энерговооруженности. Иными словами, 
> сократить население планеты до миллиарда ненасильственным путем уже 
> невозможно и пока невозможно.
>
> ... So all recommendations propose population stabilization accompanied by 
> a growth in energy supply. In other words, reducing the world’s population 
> to a billion by nonviolent means is (already?) impossible and (so far?) 
> impossible.
>
> [Note: They define the term "энерговооруженность" elsewhere as energy 
> availability per capita. But for this sentence I thought it best to 
> streamline.]
>
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