Now that we're all aware of the existence of climate change caused
by human civilization, we need to be determining how much we need to do about it.
In case you're unfamiliar with the term, geoengineering is essentially using a technological, engineering - based solution to solve climate problems that were created
by human civilization.
And by getting together to solve the greatest challenge ever faced
by human civilization, we could demonstrate togetherness and counter the divisive politics of self - interest which is sweeping the world.»
While rarely voiced, many conservationists hold unarticulated moral norms about repairing the damage done to Mother Earth
by human civilization.
Interstellar flight certainly ranks among the most daunting challenges ever postulated
by human civilization.
Global average warming over the 21st century «will substantially exceed even the warmest Holocene conditions, producing a climate state not previously experienced
by human civilizations.»
Not exact matches
If we judge a
civilization's success
by its endurance over time, then the Bushmen are the most successful society in
human history.
«
Human civilization was largely enabled
by the domestication of livestock,» says Nicholas Genovese, Valeti's co-founder.
Such conversions are likely to grow more frequent as self - described «lovers of death» such as ISIS force the French to explain and defend a
civilization firmly based, for all its inconsistencies, excesses, and aberrations, on the reverent love of
human life demanded
by the doctrine of the Incarnation.
Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative
by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European
civilization as the height of
human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.
Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down
by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of
human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of
human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups,
civilizations, etc..
The moral philosophy of Western
Civilization perceives intrinsic
human equality as an objective truth under which our moral status need not be earned
by possessing favored characteristics; it comes with the package of species membership.
Where in Genesis does it tell who created the parallel
civilization of Nod where the first
human baby created
by God (who killed the second
human baby) went?
Rolston laments that many influenced
by the mechanistic worldview of industrial
civilizations think of nonhuman nature as something devoid of value until assigned importance
by human beings.
(Oh,
by the way, not only is the Earth older than 6,000 years, so is
human civilization.
Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge
by about 6600 years and places the origins of
human religious experience much farther back in the historical progress of our
civilization than scholars previously believed possible.
If and when we are ever visited
by an alien
civilization, I can imagine one of the creature staring incredulously at the Vatican or wailing wall and asking its
human hosts, «so, you REALLY thought it was all about you?»
In the great Western
civilizations, this manifests itself partly
by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly
by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a
human convention, or
by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic sphere.
It is understood that the benefits of
civilization do not come automatically from the cornucopia of nature but must be continually created and renewed
by human effort.
The murder of Abel
by Cain represents the fratricidal, murderous violence upon which all
human civilization is built.
The ancient
human civilizations gradually developed
by the conserving and handing on of the knowledge and practices which had proved themselves in the past.
To take one example: women have been systematically exploited
by men in all
human relations and not least in the home in all Western
civilization.
Failure to control population, the possibility of the possession of atomic weapons
by dozens of nations, the issues of race and colour which affect every society and every
civilization, disclose the
human condition shared
by all.
Today, when our very planetary
civilization is endangered
by human irresponsibility, I see no other way to save it than through a general awakening and cultivation of the sense of responsibility people have for the affairs of this world.»
Machines are thus seen to constrict rather than aid
civilization by relegating the
human spirit more and more to the background of the real shapers of society — our technological inventions.
One can imagine, if and when we are eventually visited
by an alien
civilization, one of the creatures staring incredulously at the Vatican and asking its
human hosts, «so, you really thought it was all about you?»
Among them were pantheism and the positions that
human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided
by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be
by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern
civilization.»
If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed
by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or
by one of the earliest of
civilizations, one of half -
human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?
Not only do our practices spoil Mother Nature's design for the continuation of the
human race, our
civilization keeps on mutilating the mother
by silencing her,
by not helping her heal, and when breastfeeding, which could help her heal, doesn't work as expected, that too is taken away from her.
Places wild down the Amazonian forest which are extremely remote to any
human civilization, yet the whole Amazonian forest is traversed
by well defined borders and claimed
by countries.
Long before the space age,
humans looking at Mars thought they saw evidence for the presence of water, in the form of giant canals built
by some very advanced, very thirsty
civilization.
Solar storms can cause major disruption to
human civilization by crippling large electrical power grids, global positioning systems (GPS), satellite operations and communications.
This
human habit has already shifted atmospheric CO2 concentrations
by more than 100 parts per million, which is the usual shift in concentration between a planet swathed in ice and the more temperate climes in which
human civilization developed.
Although there is no way Leonardo can possibly know it, his book is going to change the course of
human civilization by bringing to the West the method of writing numbers and doing arithmetic that we use today.
That is a threshhold beyond which serious harm is likely to occur to
human civilization as well as the natural world,
by the IPCC and other's scientific judgment.
The report was accompanied
by endorsements from a long list of climate change luminaries, including former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, whose blurb reads: «Without immediate action to solve the climate crisis, catastrophic warming will fundamentally change our planet and disrupt the climate balance in which
human civilization has flourished.
And now new research indicates that the structures are not
human - made at all, rather they are natural formations sculpted
by the breakdown of methane gas within the ocean floor — millions of years before
civilization.
Human populations were broken down by geographic area, moving out of East Africa, believed to be the cradle of human civilization, and into western Europe, eastern Asia and southern Af
Human populations were broken down
by geographic area, moving out of East Africa, believed to be the cradle of
human civilization, and into western Europe, eastern Asia and southern Af
human civilization, and into western Europe, eastern Asia and southern Africa.
This find and others nearby (including the ancient city of Caral and a 3,600 - year - old adobe carving of a
human sacrifice) are rewriting history
by showing that the Americas had booming
civilizations at the same time that Mesopotamia was thriving half a world away.
Will it take 1,500 years to find alien life, or will
humans be joined soon
by other
civilization?
«
By 2045, we'll have expanded the intelligence of our
human - machine
civilization a billion-fold.
Significant epidemiological and clinical evidence has emerged that suggests AD belongs among the «diseases of
civilization,» primarily caused
by modern Western diets and lifestyles at odds with
human physiology.
«As you may realize
by now, salt has had a very colorful history, both in the development of
human civilization as well as public health politics in the past century.
Barley was used
by ancient
civilizations as a food for
humans and animals, as well as to make alcoholic beverages; the first known recipe for barley wine dates back to 2800 BC in Babylonia.
It is regarded
by many as an important factor in the genesis of the diseases of
civilization, the degradation of the health of modern
humans.
Meet Filipina Girls and Woman, Singles and appreciated
by thousands for dating American single man, boyfriend or Generally, during much of recorded history of
humans in
civilization, and into the Middle Ages in Europe, weddings were seen as business arrangements
The premise of the show centered around
human civilization on distant planets being wiped out
by machines known as Cylons.
Then there was 2014's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, set 10 years later, in which the uneasy detente between the growing new
civilization of smart apes and a small cluster of surviving
humans was shattered
by mistrust and unhealable pain on both sides.
The constellation's formation matches a number of others indexed across ancient
human civilization, constituting sufficient evidence to justify aging zillionaire Peter Weylan (Guy Pearce, heavily augmented
by prosthetics, and likely some CGI) sending a team of scientists to the far reaches of the galaxy, trailing the origins of
human life on a hunch.
Whatever apocalyptic associations its title may generate, «Captain America: Civil War» turns out to be an infinitely smarter piece of multiplex mythmaking, blessed as it is with a new villain (played with unnerving subtlety
by Daniel Bruhl) who has more on his mind than blowing
human civilization to smithereens.