On Thursday, Jan. 15, Future Tense will hold an event in Washington, D.C., titled «How
Will Human Ingenuity Handle a Warming Planet?»
Not exact matches
And, even though the rich man by
human ingenuity should at last succeed in being able to trick the sun into shining more invitingly upon his palace than over the poor man's hut, man
will never be able to trick the Good and eternity in this fashion.
... Every article of
human ingenuity has been employed to blunt the sharp edge of this scripture and to explain away the obvious meaning of these words, but it has been employed in vain, though nothing
will ever be able to reconcile this and similar passages to the mind of the natural man (Pink, Sovereignty of God, 52).
I
will only say that I can not imagine a salvation of the world in which
human ingenuity and inventiveness fails to play a large role.
The economist Julian Simon says «the ultimate resource is
human brains», implying that
human technical
ingenuity and prowess
will solve all problems of resources and pollution.
Granted, there
will still be many divorces brought about by the flawed decisions of individuals, giving witness to the continuing
ingenuity of
human sin, and creating a painful legacy of injury and evil.
For now we
will have to rely on
human ingenuity to come up with the tools needed to see planets bathed in urban light.
They argue that surviving in the kinds of numbers that exist today, or even more,
will be possible, but only if we use our uniquely
human ingenuity to cooperate as a species to radically reorganise our world.
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There you
'll join the ranks of a lost
human commune, known as Survivors, resisting The Watcher threat with salvage and
ingenuity.
«Artificial intelligences are a product of
human ingenuity, and although they are going to be going down their new path, they
will remain a mirror to humanity,» he told USA Today.
Call me an optimist, but I have to believe that
human ingenuity and labor
will beat inert hunks of metal every time.
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There is another school of thought - that
human ingenuity and economic progress
will get round the problem, as they have in the past, notably in the Green Revolution that transformed food - scarce countries such as India into lands of abundance, with food exports contributing to the national coffers.
They do not deny global warming; instead they skate over the top of it, insisting that whatever limits and tipping points the Earth system might throw up,
human technology and
ingenuity will transcend them.
And, as a result of
human ingenuity and the free market (which got us where we are today), new technologies
will come along that
will eventually replace fossil fuels for many of the lower added - value end uses, such as electrical power generation or transportation.
Also, while I think that science and technological progress and capitalism have done a pretty good job of avoiding permanent resource scarcity so far (eg, the Simon / Ehrlich bet), I don't think we should assume that they can do so forever, or that economic growth
will continue at the current several percent rate forever - they might, betting against
human ingenuity is always dangerous, but a good, robust strategy would take into account the possibility that there might be limits to growth even if it is difficult to pinpoint any one given constraint.
He also said we
will never run out out fossil fuels because «
Human ingenuity has an unlimited potential capacity to create new energy resources.
«We're optimists because we believe if we set bold science based goals then
human ingenuity will find a way to advance solutions,» said Barry Parkin, Chief Sustainability Officer, Mars.
The way we produce and use energy
will become increasingly clean not by limiting its consumption, but by using expanded access to energy to unleash
human ingenuity in support of innovating toward an equitable, low - carbon global energy system.
And just as
human ingenuity has allowed us to overcome countless obstacles in the past, he notes, it is more than reasonable to suppose it
will do so in the future as well.
If there is continued
human ingenuity, lawyers
will be needed by clients to untangle the ever competing rights and responsibilities that society expects.
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human ingenuity can, must and
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human ingenuity can, must and
will develop sustainable solutions to the problems we face.