Sentences with phrase «about human vulnerability»
I've been writing a lot about human vulnerability to inevitable disasters on a crowding planet.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
«Everything we hear from clients is about the human aspects of leadership: vulnerability, humility.»
Silver lining: this article was about self forgiveness, vulnerability, and being human... Exactly what I needed.
«We're beginning to understand that genetics is really about vulnerability,» says neuroscientist Pat Levitt, director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.
They found the human story, the vulnerability, the drive, the fear, the resolve behind the hoopla and hyperbole, and they have made a film about real people that is moving and, even though we know the outcome of the game, suspenseful.
It asks viewers to think about the human aspect of being super and the vulnerability that comes with it.
In her best - selling story collection, Birds of America («[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability» — James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss.
The traps are harnessed within themselves as objects, until human intervention turns them into questions for the audience about their own vulnerability and fragility.
Throughout her career Rogers has made it a point to celebrate humankind's vigor and warmth, by creating a dialogue about the beauty, vulnerability and tragic experience that is the human condition.
«His art... is about the human condition, which is why the images or scenes depicted are not specific to China, nor especially to the era... and individual experience in this rapidly modernising society acts as a backdrop to Jia Aili's awareness of human frailty, vulnerability, and the need to be mindful of one's surroundings.»
Until Now, Daniel's second solo exhibit with A.D., portrays recently made memories: learning he's about to become a father, the way friendships seem to bloom and wilt, fantastic explanations for death, split personalities, and the various forms of escapism we engage, all within Daniel's view of the basic softness and vulnerability of the human being.
Works on view by Asante — once described by Maya Angelou as «visualizing the truth about the vulnerability and power of the human being» — serve as contemplations on African American experience, visualized in color monotypes that appropriate vintage photographs.
Paint Made Flesh examines the ways in which European and American painters have used oil paint and the human body to convey enduring human vulnerabilities, among them anxieties about desire, appearance, illness, aging, war, and death.
------------------ From reading these quotes in context within pp. 268 - 270 +, it seems to me this is more about economic losses due to hurricanes & floods (human / human - structure exposure and vulnerability), and not about overall possible changing patterns in such extreme events.
Updated, Feb. 8, 10:00 p.m. Given Florida's special vulnerability to rising seas and other consequences of human - driven global warming (which I first wrote about in 1988), it's not surprising that one of the first efforts to break the partisan impasse in the House around this issue has come from two lawmakers from the south end of that state — Republican Representative Carlos Curbelo and Representative Ted Deutch, a Democrat.
But it's worth beginning a conversation about ways to live safer in such hazard zones given that this storm season is just getting under way and that big regions of America's tornado hot zone have deep vulnerability resulting from runaway growth and a human tendency to discount threats that have a low probability but disastrous potential.
The climate community did a great service to the country in 2006 in putting out a joint statement on the enormous human vulnerability in coastal zones to hurricanes — setting aside questions about the role of greenhouse - driven warming in changing hurricane patterns.
This paper finds that under a wide range of assumptions about future growth in wealth and population, and about the effects of human - caused climate change, in every case there is far greater potential to affect future losses by focusing attention on the societal conditions that generate vulnerability to losses.
If human - induced climate change is responsible, we need to seriously start thinking about decreasing our vulnerability to extreme storm events and pro-actively adapt to a more energetic future wave climate.»
To understand vulnerability in these sectors we need to know not only about the natural processes involved in global change, but also about human behavior that influences production and consumption.
Of the myriad of claims made in the climate debate, Cox thinks it is sufficient to answer even the IPCC's own statement that «Uncertainties about future vulnerability, exposure, and responses of interlinked human and natural systems are large» with the mantra, «climate change is happening», which means precisely nothing.
While I personally believe that Obama is speaking of encryption as a whole, many bitcoin advocates have made the claim that he is talking specifically about bitcoin since it provides many of the same features as a swiss bank account but without the human vulnerabilities.
An informational drug and alcohol lecture coving new research and statistics about the effects alcohol has on human brain chemistry, genetic pre-disposition and vulnerability to addiction, and marijuana use and abuse.
But I think the one thing I learned about myself is I'm a human being and therefore I'm vulnerable and real strength is knowing that and knowing how to deal with vulnerability and knowing just how much I need other people not just to be social with or to have fun with or to work with but how much I need.