Sentences with phrase «modern civilization does»

«Modern civilization doesn't diminish violence, study shows.»

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American individualism — the willful project of our modern founding — has so infected every nook and cranny of our country that the only thing to do is to flee to the beautiful buildings and other fading reminders of what was the authentically Christian civilization of Europe.

If modern civilization stands for all this, and I have understood it to do so, I call it Satanic».

Do you want modern civilization or not?

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

That is, I believe, bad philosophy — and incompatible with the basic principles of our civilization and polity; but at least it does not rely on denying basic facts known to anyone who has taken the trouble to acquaint himself or herself with modern human embryology and developmental biology.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

Modern human - driven forces, like climate change and pollution, are «orders of magnitude more destructive than what early humans were doing,» Lyons said, but even at the dawn of human civilizations, people were certainly having major — and unprecedented — ecological impacts, she said.

Do you think the symptoms of menopause as experienced by the average American female eating the standard American diet and being treated by the medical establishment as it now stands are actually symptoms of a disease of modern civilization?

He found 14 cultures who not only did not experience tooth decay, they were also immune from many of the diseases plaguing modern civilization.

Shanghai is a modern city just as much as it is an ancient civilization, and there are many things to do.

Through her work with the PLC, she realized that although she did a great job teaching ancient civilization, she wasn't relating the subject to modern times.

If you're looking for a compact truck with some fairly serious off - road chops (for a stock truck at least) and don't care about a smooth ride or all the modern technology, then the Nissan Frontier is the truck for you (especially if you spend lots of time away from civilization where breakdowns can be more than just an annoyance).

My love for turn - based strategy games began with Sid Meir and Civilization almost 15 years ago, though modern day equivalents like Boom Beach by Supercell (made famous by their Clash of Clans game) do satisfy my love of the genre.

Learn about the ancient Mayan civilization and how in the modern day Mayas view their culture as well as come to this sacred place to do their mayan ceremonies.

He probably doesn't know that Sunny kept part of the system intact to make sure modern civilization will continue to exist, but that doesn't mean the transition won't go without a few problems along the way.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

If fossils of anatomically modern humans can be found from 200 - 300 thousand years ago, why didn't a technological civilization develop during the Eemian interglacial?

What is the basis of your hope that modern industrial civilization will suddenly change its stripe and use all energy supplied to it to do only things that don't endanger ecosystems?

Do you really believe that NASA scientists (or scientists in general, for that matter) have an «antipathy to modern technological civilization?»

They're mostly not saying, «Don't worry, be happy,» but they're definitely not urging listeners to buy food insurance, as Glenn Beck's show periodically does, or to gird for the collapse of modern civilization, as resource pessimists have long intoned.

It amazes me that he (and so many others) are eager to accuse AGW advocates of «intellectual pride,» «antipathy to modern technological civilization,» and other crimes against truth, but gives the impression that contrarians (like Lindzen) are only doing it because of the purest concern for the good of mankind.

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

Here's one word he certainly did know: pollution Here's another: conservation And our modern Robber Barons are more concerned with maintaining their profits than with the survival of our civilization, and perhaps our species.

If we don't change our behavior, in 50 years we'll be on a planet inhospitable to modern civilization.

So I think we do in fact know what the «optimum» temperature window is for modern human civilization — and we are about to find out the unpleasant consequences of breaking through that window.

The Baltimore Green Forum seeks to educate about and stimulate dialogue about what humans can do to make modern civilization more sustainable, including adjusting to finite resource limits and preserving biodiversity and a healthy environment.

The Baltimore Green Forum seeks to educate and stimulate dialogue about what humans can do to make modern civilization more sustainable, including adjusting to finite resource limits and preserving biodiversity and a healthy environment.

One question we get a lot is how do current temperatures compare to temperatures people have experienced in the period of modern civilization.

How else does one explain global warming / cooling periods in the past long before modern civilization?