Sentences with phrase «as human appetites»

I'll be diving back shortly into new approaches to limiting climate risks as human appetites and numbers crest in the next few decades.

He clearly gets the importance of scientific and technological inquiry to the future of the American economy — and prospects for a relatively smooth ride as human appetites and environmental impacts crest in the next few generations.

I think there is, and it is to get to the root of the story, which is that we don't have the energy menu we need to have a smooth ride in this century as human appetites and numbers crest.

Not exact matches

There Friedberg observed that most farmers plant corn and soybeans because they make can make the most money through those crops, in large part because of their role as animal feed that supports humans» massive appetite for meat.

With human appetite growing and stocks dwindling, additional moratoriums will likely be necessary so as to avoid collapses.

This disbelief in the value of the human body was epitomised by Thomas Hobbes, who wrote: «Man is in the condition of mere nature, which is a condition of war, as private appetite is the measure of good and evil».

Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.

The Quranic texts do not give in detail the code of laws regulating dealings — human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.

When sexuality gets framed as something to repress or feed, something that needs to be reigned in or fanned into flame, we're seeing it as merely an appetite, a set of biological compulsions, and we've lost something fundamentally human about ourselves.

Both I and St Thomas consider that the soul continues to exercise thought and understanding (and indeed will, which is intellectual appetite) after death, and, as St Thomas explains, this can not be in synergism with the imagination in the way it is during human life, but is made possible in ways God provides, and in this way the life of purgatory allows the purification that most people need, while the Saints pray for the living and the dead of whom God gives them knowledge through their vision of Him.

One hates to make old arguments, but if this education teaches (as other sections of the report make clear that is must) the familiar doctrines about how very wrong it is to impose any kind of normative standard on the many forms that peoples» desires can take, on what basis does it exclude pornography or the sexualization of young girls as legitimate forms of the varied human sexual appetite?

Long ago Plato suggested that we consider it as divided into three parts — the appetitive, spirited, and rational — that correspond to the three basic kinds of human desires: the desire to satisfy physical appetites, the desire for recognition, and the desire for truth.

The human appetite for seeds has resulted in new forms of dispersal as well.

As for human subjects, there is, notes one specialist in the field, no data to suggest innate appetites for specific foods.

The human body can digest it easily, it's rich in what's known as amino acids (building blocks of life), it can help suppress appetite, and it can be useful for lean muscle mass growth.

Furthermore, human milk contains hormones such as leptin, ghrelin, and adiponectin that control appetite and energy balance, and which may play a role in influencing your child's metabolism into adulthood.

The confusion has given me an appetite for understanding more about human relationships in general, and I have decided to retrain as a psychotherapist here in the UK.

With unrestricted access to Anthony Weiner's New York City mayoral campaign, this film reveals the human story behind the scenes of a high - profile political scandal as it unfolds, and it offers an unfiltered look at how much today's politics are driven by an appetite for spectacle.

Zach sees this as his second chance to make things right with Beth, but how can he overlook the fact that his girlfriend's body is decomposing, and her appetite for human flesh are growing stronger each day?

Aristotle's famous solution to this problem was to optimize human fulfillment by balancing the satisfactions of all the human appetites — from food and sex to the disinterested contemplation of truth — keeping society's need for civility and security in mind as well.

(Sometimes certain antihistamine medications help stimulate appetite in pets as they do in humans.

Upper respiratory infections in cats produce many of the same symptoms as the common cold in humans: fever, runny nose and eyes, sneezing, and decreased appetite.

Dogs and cats face similar diabetes risk as it is more common in overweight people (and pets), so veterinarians are suggesting that humans watch the amounts and types of food they give their furry friends during the holidays, and to watch out for signs of diabetes like frequent urination, changes in appetite and unusual thirstiness.

Feeding animals human food can also develop bad habits such as begging, kitchen raiding, and picky appetite.

Wolves are commonly perceived as bottomless beasts whom no amount of human flesh can satiate their appetites.

Getting through the crest in human numbers and appetites that's coming in the next generation will entail some acceptance even as it motivates the energy to foster change.

In tracking population growth, spikes in resource appetites, and explosive change in technologies that are sheathing the planet in human activity, it's not hard to find support for the contention by Stuart Hart of Cornell that our moment is unique, that we're not suffering from «chronocentrism,» the tendency of each generation to see its time as special (in a good or bad way).

Despite their appeal, such steps are almost meaningless when considering the grand challenge of limiting warming even as human numbers and energy appetites crest in coming decades, an array of climate scientists warn.

As human populations and appetites crest in coming decades, a quality that was critical after 9/11 will be needed more and more — resilience.

But, as I explained to Gell - Mann then, I don't see better communication, on its own, being remotely sufficient to set the world on a course to shift swiftly from the fuels of convenience — coal and oil — even as human numbers and resource appetites crest.

He described the concept of chronocentrism — a tendency for every generation to feel that its time is uniquely momentous; but he asserted that this moment in human history — the next 40 years or so, as our centuries - long pulse of vaulting numbers and appetites crests — is truly special.

Tigers, the biggest of the great cats, are having a tough time finding space as the growth spurt in human numbers and appetites in Asia presses in on their last wild havens.

Anyone following this blog is aware that there are smart, informed people in this world with completely divergent views of the sources of human progress and problems and the best route forward as populations and appetites crest in coming decades.

It's a sobering practice, but helpful if your goal is to chart what will, and won't, make a big difference in limiting warming as human numbers and resource appetites crest in coming decades.

-- What's the best way to limit climate - related risks as human numbers and appetites crest in the next few decades?

I'll close with my overarching thought, reprised from a December post, on how networking could well be the meta - innovation that will drive the scale of progress that is required as human populations and appetites surge at least through mid-century:

But they are grossly insufficient to drive the changes in energy options that would have to occur to avoid turmoil — environmental or social — as human numbers and energy appetites crest in the next few decades.

My focus is a bit «meta» given the broad focus of the blog on trends as humans head toward people population and appetites.

Coal is the prime factor determining the pace of growth in emissions of heat - trapping carbon dioxide as human populations and appetites crest in the next few decades.

Extinction: Elizabeth Kolbert of The New Yorker has explored evidence for a human - driven spasm of extinction getting into high gear as human numbers and appetites spike.

He reacted strongly to my recent cautiously upbeat statement — made while conducting an onstage interview with a Brazilian ecologist — about prospects that the rain forests there could persist through this century even as human numbers and appetites crest.

I had an utterly minor experience today that helped reinforce my personal sense of where to focus if the goal is fostering a relatively smooth ride as human populations and appetites crest in coming decades.

But this is clearly a case of the wrong tool for the job, if the job is, in fact, to curb emissions of greenhouse gases as human populations and energy appetites crest.

There's huge potential for the United States to take a leading role in driving the energy quest that would be needed to slow and eventually cut CO2 output even as human numbers and appetites crest.

And it's doing so just as the human «population cluster bomb» is creating high densities of people in many of those same places and the growth of the global middle class is amplifying appetites.