Sentences with phrase «about future generations because»
Well, apparently Mr. Revkin took offense that I suggested he may not care about future generations because he emailed me to tell me so, explaining that he wrote so many articles on global warming, etc. etc..
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
The goal of redress and compensation will be impossible to achieve completely, however, because future generations, though among those to be affected by toxic waste storage, obviously can not take part in negotiations about where to place that waste today.
Isn't it also true that we are here today, that we are who we are, in the condition in which we find ourselves, because we also had biological and spiritual ancestors who sat on their hands, who cared only for themselves, who thought little about the impact of their actions on future generations?
«When I first ran for Congress, I left a 20 - year career as a federal prosecutor because I was frustrated with the inaction in Washington and knew that if I wanted to see real change for my children and for future generations that I needed to get off the sidelines and do something about it.
Because this is only a small proportion of the genome, Surani says most epigenetic changes brought about by our environment are very unlikely to affect future generations, but that there may be a small window of opportunity for some of these to be passed on.
In my experience, many first generation college - bound students obsess about their future careers and can sometimes be extremely narrow in their college searches because they can't get away from the link between college and future earnings potential.
If we at least started to make pupils aware that learning to spell English is difficult because it was repeatedly changed for the worse by people who did not care a jot about enabling all children to learn as much as possible (as I have explained to the History page of my EnglishSpellingProblems blog) future generations might start doing something about it.
Having children actually makes us more concerned about GW because its future generations that will be impacted the most if we do not get a world wide grip on stabilising emissions very soon.
The only other parting shot I could get in was that I've found that people with children are less likely to believe in GW, than people without children, because GW is such a horrible problem to contemplate for future generations that there's a huge cognitive dissonance about it (I haven't done a study, it's only my sense of things); the man has three small children.
Honestly, whenever I hear someone dribbling on about «future generations», I clasp my wallet tight, and my critical faculties tighter — because they are about to ask me to make a personal sacrifice on the altar of their ideology.
How about — We must do something urgent about AGW because...... otherwise future generations will regard us as even more stupid than the people who felled the last tree on Easter Island, or the Dodo hunters, or the 19thC whalers or the Grand banks cod fishermen, or CFC manufacturers... Or any of the other examples from history of human activities damaging a common resource by overuse.
But if you are worried about future generations then you want to do something because the science is telling us they are likely to face unneccessary suffering and hardship as the climate increases getting worse.
«My husband and I deliberated for years about whether to have a child at all, partly because parenting in an affluent society is, shall we say, a carbon - intensive activity, and partly because we knew that future generations will probably have to contend with the consequences of a severely disrupted climate.
In fact, we started this blog because we were concerned that environmentalism and anxieties about «sustainability» threatened to deprive this generation and future generations of the possibilities that development can create.
«Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia... Because CO2 in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.»
«YET the deniers are choosing, willfully, to ignore that threat, placing future generations of Americans in grave danger, simply because it's in their political interest to pretend that there's nothing to worry about.
climate sensitivities, it shouldn't ultimately matter whether dangerous climate change occurs in 2200, 2300 or 2400 because of our actions now; surely we should care about what we leave for future generations?
Because estate planning is about leaving a legacy, this is a great vehicle to train future generations in the importance of investing, planning for the future, and letting things grow over time.
But because Intel is usually quiet about its plans for future generations of products, this early glimpse is still an interesting look at what to expect from the processor powerhouse going forward.