Sentences with phrase «allowed human civilization»

And that might mean the climate is too sensitive to tolerate current levels of CO2 without changing the conditions that have allowed human civilization to flourish in the past 10,000 years.

By some accounts it was pushed by a German advisory panel back in the early 1990s, who argued that letting temperatures rise more than 2 °C (3.6 °F) would bring us outside the temperature range that allowed human civilization to flourish in the first place.

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Although the source of the attraction of the Galápagos, both for Darwin and for tourists today, is the paucity of civilization that has allowed it to evade human influence, Ecuadoran law says that to visit the uninhabited islands you have to be on a tour in the company of a «naturalist.»

Human - caused climate change, ocean acidification and species extinctions may eventually threaten the collapse of civilization, according to some scientists, while other people argue that for political or economic reasons we should allow industrial development to continue without restrictions.

Subsequent limited independence of the environment, with technical advance, allows human aggregations of a permanent nature and that increasing complexity of organization which we call civilization.

And although Earth has seen CO2 levels much higher in the remote past, the human species has not — and our penchant for burning may continue to alter the climate that has allowed our civilization to flourish.

In contrast to feeding artificial infant formula, only human milk allows appropriate metabolic programming and protects against diseases of civilization in later life.

It is a scarce and limited common good on the global and local scale that has allowed the birth and evolution of many human civilizations in nearly all corners of the Mother Earth.

These are important subjects however they do not have enough cohesion elements, which would allow global education, whose aim is to make people feel belonging to the «human civilization» and «global society» on planet Earth.

over the past 10,000 years has allowed establishment of human civilization, by making it possible to create large stationary agricultural farms because we

We must not be deterred by our vulnerability; we must embrace it and allow it to propel us forward to chart a new course for human civilization.

If we allow sustained global average temperature increases of more than 1 degree Celsius, we will suffer irreversible climate destabilization and a planet largely inhospitable to human civilization.

Some 17,000 years ago, the earth's position relative to the sun led to a thawing, with warm and moist conditions taking hold, allowing civilization to eventually prosper, especially though the development of agriculture, which allowed humans to specialize.

The episode, the ninth in the series, looked back on the climatic and physical upheavals undergone by Earth, before highlighting the mild interglacial climate that allowed the human species to kickstart the neolithic revolution and the first civilizations.

Finally, the discovery and use of fossil fuels enabled humans to escape the backbreaking manual work that characterized earlier human civilization by allowing the development of modern economies with all the conveniences that energy use makes possible in high income countries.

The relatively stable climate over the past 10,000 years has allowed establishment of human civilization, by making it possible to create large stationary agricultural farms because we could rely on stable weather patterns.