Sentences with phrase «about irreversible change»

«Remember when Maddy first learned about irreversible change?»

Here she talks about the irreversible changes that will happen to your breasts if you breastfeed.

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Deforestation of the Amazon is about to reach a threshold beyond which the region's tropical rainforest may undergo irreversible changes that transform the landscape into degraded savanna with sparse shrubby plant cover and low biodiversity.

Many people have concerns about the possible use of genome editing in humans, for example, about the risks of unintended effects due to off target DNA alterations, and the implications of making irreversible changes that will be passed on to future generations.

Pesticides still abound, we're in the midst of a human - made mass extinction and decades of warnings about irreversible climate change appear to have fallen on deaf ears.

It is not about plugging holes, but about building professional capacity to make change irreversible.

We start to worry about irreversible brain changes when the active seizure phase lasts longer than 30 minutes.

And I was curious: Knowing what you know about the pace of change — and how what we've already dumped in our atmosphere is going to have an irreversible impact for decades to come — what is your personal belief on the issue of what sort of lives we in the first world should live in the here and now?

As to the bottom line, we are talking about changes to a fundamental part of the ocean carbon cycle, far outside the range of natural variability, that are irreversible and will last for thousands of years.

She released a statement about why she undertook today's action: Today I'm taking action because Vermont Gas is intent upon shackling our communities to fossil fuels, and condemning us to irreversible climate change.

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

Hansen, who was among the initial wave of scientists warning about climate change in the 1980s, said Friday he fears most its «irreversible effects.»

In their statement, the scientific academies say the oceans have absorbed about a quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere by human activities since the industrial revolution, resulting in rapid and irreversible changes in ocean chemistry.

Whether you (or Edim) personally want to worry about these things is up to you, my point is that there are plenty of potential effects of climate change which would not fall into the «abrupt and irreversible» category but could still cause big problems if they occur, so just because the particular outcomes the IPCC classifies as such may not happen this century it doesn't logically mean we won't suffer serious impacts in the shorter term.

By carefully re-examining legal knowledge, we can begin to positively guide the «fundamental and irreversible» change that our profession is about to undergo.