Sentences with phrase «although other human activities»

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Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the moral principle governing their use is perfectly ordinary: It is the familiar one that human beings should engage in an activity that poses dangers to others only if, in the totality of the circumstances, doing so is reasonable» i.e., if the good to be achieved, taking account of the probability of success, is proportionate to the possible ill effects.

Robert T. Miller examines the morality of using unmanned robotic drones: Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the moral principle governing their use is perfectly ordinary: It is the familiar one that human beings should engage in an activity that poses dangers to others....

Next, although science may come closer to universality than any other human activity, there are distinct local variations, as scientists adapt to local constraints and approach science with ways of thinking that are influenced by local culture, and these different ways of doing science can teach us things.

Although researchers can only speculate on what prehistoric artists were trying to express, hypotheses range from shamanistic and ritualistic activities to attempts to capture the spirit of horses and other animals that ancient humans hunted.

But although change in that vast watershed of western US and Mexico called the Great Basin is contemporaneous with the Industrial Revolution, and the rise of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, other human activities may have triggered the dramatic alteration.

Although carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion is the primary cause of global warming, other human activities and greenhouse gases are also central to the climate story.

The report noted that although these temperature record reconstructions «are not the primary evidence for the widely accepted views that global warming is occurring, [and] that human activities are contributing, at least in part, to this warming,» they «are consistent with other evidence of global climate change and can be considered as additional supporting evidence.»

Although other non-meteorological causes (e.g., human activities, fuel accumulation) have likely contributed to the observed increase of wildfires, an effect of climatic warming on wildfire occurrence is supported by this relationship.