The petition further stated that «there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and
animal environments of the Earth.»
«Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plan and
animal environments of the Earth.»
On the contrary, the petition cites «substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and
animal environments of the earth.»
Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and
animal environments of the earth.»
Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and
animal environments of the Earth.
Not exact matches
For
animals, intermittent stress is the bulk
of what they experience, in the form
of physical threats in their immediate
environment.
What it does: This microbe is extremely versatile and can live in a wide range
of environments, including soil, water,
animals, plants, sewage, and hospitals in addition to humans.
What it does: E. coli are a large and diverse family
of bacteria that normally live in the intestines
of people and
animals, in the
environment, and in certain foods.
«I was reading about things that were
of concern to me, the
environment, hunger,
animals, human rights.
Memphis Meats founder Uma Valeti, a former cardiologist, is using cellular agriculture to produce chicken, duck, and beef that he believes will be healthier to eat and better for the
environment than conventional meat, all without the slaughter
of animals.
«When you place
animals in an alien
environment, they show signs
of stress.
Beyond Meat, for example, professes its portfolio has high levels
of «clean» nutrients and is better for
animals, the
environment, and human health.
The company also strives to be faith - friendly, provide a safe work
environment and serve as stewards
of the
animals, land and
environment entrusted to it.
The person who eats 400 pounds
of animal meat every year is treading on the
environment for others, and so a meat tax could be implemented as a matter
of protecting personal liberty.
If being able to more easily purchase meat and poultry raised without antibiotics is important to you, Halloran has this advice: «Wherever you eat, ask restaurant managers about their meat sourcing policies and practices and make sure they know that you're looking for options that are healthier not only for you but for the
animals and the
environment, too — including meat produced without the routine use
of antibiotics.»
Many Thai farmers grow crops to feed
animals rather than people — to the detriment
of the
environment.
There I was fascinated by the incredibly unique culture and
environment: Did you know that 80 %
of the plants and
animals found in Madagascar don't exist anywhere else on the planet?
But long forgotten then and completely forgotten now is the enrichment delivered by those exchanges with discoveries such as Hemlo, Eskay Creek, Voisey's Bay, DiaMet, Aber... and the list goes on, with billion upon billions
of dollars in new wealth created in an
environment of laissez - faire capitalism and
animal spirits.
The result is a culture that discriminates against other
animals, has disregard for the
environment, created hatred against people
of different beliefs and cultures, and has created constant sect oral wars from the day
of its emergence.
When I was comparing humanity to the
animal world, I was referring to the diversity in behaviour and the associated perceptions (assuming
animal behaviour is driven by perception
of their
environment).
A good chice for the name, with a focus on the
environment, the poor and the welfare
of animals hopefully signalling real chamge in the church.
The moral worth
of his cause on behalf
of animals or the
environment is seen as overriding the etiquette injunction against humiliating people.
Through the aid
of modern science we have learned so much about our physical and
animal environment that we can destroy and kill with tremendous efficiency.
[13] This said, in
animals lower than humans it is morally permissible to thwart the purposes
of bodily organs, so that the Church fully permits the sterilisation
of animals (if it doesn't cause unreasonable cruelty to them or damage to the material
environment).
All the theory
of evolution says is that life forms adapt to changes in the
environment over time; that there are global changes in the gene pool
of a given population
of animals over time.
Animals have to constantly adapt to a changing
environment and thus «conscious mental imagery, explicit anticipation
of likely outcomes and simple thoughts about them are likely to achieve better results than thoughtless reaction» (AT 41).
Biologists have, since pre-evolutionary days, been fascinated by instances
of structural parallelisms in not closely related
animals and plants that exploit similar
environments in similar ways.
How about things like taking better care
of the
environment, advancing medicine, teaching children to be kind to other people and
animals, and so forth?
There is a remarkable appreciation for pet dogs and plants, which has resulted in sections
of many nursing homes implementing the so - called «Eden Alternative»
of a naturalistic
environment with friendly
animals.
One
of the reasons that I have felt forced to take this charge very seriously is that it has become clearer and clearer that the present destruction
of the
environment is continuous with that which has been taking place ever since the domestication
of plants and
animals.
In that universe
of discourse, belief in God spells trust in life and man, as capable
of transcending the potentialities
of evil that inhere in his
animal heredity, in his social heritage, and in the conditions
of his
environment.
Man as we know him today, man
of metaphysics,
of abstract thought, the creator
of his own
environment, the space - traveller, the moulder
of himself, the man
of God and
of grace and
of the promise
of eternal life, precisely this man who is radically distinct from any
animal and who at the moment
of man's origin, though perhaps very slowly, took a path which led him so far away from all that is merely
animal, yet in such a fashion that he carried with him the whole inheritance
of his biological pre-history into these realms
of his existence remote from the
animals, was there when man began to exist.18 And what now is historically and externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentiality.
The constitution
of a society prescribes the forms
of justice only when it provides for that kind
of interaction among individuals, and between individuals and the physical
environment, which creates the human mind, and which sustains that scope
of understanding, power
of action and richness
of appreciation which is distinctively human in contrast to the lower
animals.
see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere
animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our
environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our
environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction
of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...
Say we have a population
of animals which has to meet some new challenge offered to it by an altered
environment; there may be some individuals in the population whose development is changed by the
environment in a way which makes them better able to deal with the challenge — they show a capacity for adaptive modification.
Such types
of animal minds, evolved in relation to a reciprocal interaction between the selection
of environment by
animal and
of animal by
environment, are what we refer to rather crudely as instincts.
Two people cash have differing opinions on abortion, h0m0s3xuality, capital punishment, women's rights, race equality, the treatment
of children,
animals, and the
environment, plus a host
of other topics, and still be justified in calling themselves «Christian».
And quite apart from humans, nature itself, we believe, has produced new species
of plants and
animals, new
environments, and other important new facts.15 To interpret this use
of the word «creativity»» from the standpoint
of our metaphysics, we may claim that the production
of such novelty» has to do exclusively (with the exception to be discussed below) with characterization.
Trapping's alleged deleterious effect on the
environment constitutes the second line
of argument employed by
animal protectionists.
Animal protectionist groups lobby for the banning
of wildlife trapping because
of its perceived cruelty and harm to the
environment.
RESOURCES «New Zealand Grants a River the Rights
of Personhood,» Care2.Com [Swiss] Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology, The Dignity
of Living Beings with Regard to Plants [PDF] Community
Environment Legal Defense Fund Web Site CELDF «Rights
of Nature» FAQs Carl Cohen and Tom Regan, chapter by Carl Cohen, «Rights and Interests,» The
Animal Rights Debate, (Latham, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001), p. 17 David S. Oderberg, «The Illusion
of Animal Rights,» Human Life Review, Spring - Summer 2000, p. 42.
The Tool - Making
Animal was thus less concerned with mastery
of his
environment than in looking for clever ways to impress his unpredictable mate.
C. H. Waddington sees an interaction between the purposive behavior
of animals and their
environment that was inadequately recognized in more reductionistic interpretations
of neo-Darwinism.
Or how a 500 year old man and his 3 sons were able to construct a 450 foot boat with every kind
of terrestrial
environment in the world to support every kind
of animal in the world.
With
animals and men it also depends to a large extent on the experimental situation — the contingencies
of the
environment — whether their mentalistic or mechanical aspect will dominate.
It would go directly against this balance if the process were to throw up an
animal that is greater, that escapes the determinism
of its
environment.
At the summit
of material
animal evolution is a proto - human, but the next stage
of complexity in brain function would be out
of kilter with the natural
environment since it is now too powerful to be subject to the ULCD from the material
environment alone.
This purely material process can not account for an
animal that transcends its material
environment and therefore stands over the process
of material causality.
The uniqueness
of Man is shown by the fact that there is no real intellect in the
animals — even the higher apes show no propensity for learning other languages, for mathematics, science or art; nor do
animals show evidence
of free will — they are completely constrained by the material
environment and by instinct.
The organism draws its genes from an enormously variegated gene pool; it develops under the influence
of them and also under those
of a probably pretty heterogeneous
environment; and, at any given stage
of its life, the way its genes and its previous
environment have acted up to that point may have considerable effect on the nature
of the
environment to which it will next be subjected — if the
animal does not like it here it may migrate someplace else, and so on.