For the most part these movements work locally to bring about justice and sustainability for small groups of people many of whom are experiencing already profound threats to their lives and their livelihoods. (religion-online.org)
Confronted by profound threats to the wellbeing of the world, the issue of how to relate present and future take on new urgency for us. (religion-online.org)
Also, I'm not sure I see strong support for this concluding sentence: «Although polar bears have persisted through previous warm phases, multiple human - mediated stressors (e.g., habitat conversion, persecution, and accumulation of toxic substances in the food chain) could magnify the impact of current climate change, posing a novel and likely profound threat to polar bear survival.» (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)