Sentences with phrase «by human economic activity»

Climate change is driven by human activity — chiefly the combustion of fossil fuels and changes in land use — and forests and other natural ecosystems play a powerful role in both soaking up the greenhouse gases released by human economic activity and at the same time sheltering many of the other 10 million or so species that share the planet.

Not exact matches

Many careful observers believe that human economic activity is already at an unsustainable level in many parts of the world and even globally, as indicated by global warming.

The second is consumer capitalism, the intricate socio - economic system that taps the human drives of individual gain and greed, rewarding incentive and encouraging participation in the system by the prospect of increased consumption of pleasurable goods or services and access to otherwise restricted activities.

First used to refer to the new global economy, it now encompasses the great new phenomenon of our time — the process by which all scientific, cultural, religious and economic human activity is being integrated into one worldwide network.

Indeed, according to a report last year by the research and management organization Battelle, «In 2010 alone, the human genome sequencing projects and associated genomics research and industry activity directly and indirectly generated $ 67 billion in U.S. economic output and supported 310,000 jobs that produced $ 20 billion in personal income.»

During all this time, natural ecosystems have developed in co-evolution, but 250 years ago, with the development and industrialization models imposed by the West on the world, anthropogenic action is causing a major ecological and social footprint, hence the urgency to formulate international policies that circumscribe human economic activities within the biophysical limits of Mother Earth.

«The environment to which pupils and students are to adapt is not the economy of real experience but rather a mere ideal concept generated by mainstream economists, particularly those of the Chicago School of Economics who, in their pursuit of «economic imperialism», have applied it to education: Its concept of a market is a purely abstract super-conscious price and coordination mechanism according to which all human activity must be aligned.

It's perfectly reasonable to be alarmed at plausible threats posed by unprecedented changes in the atmosphere and biology of the earth wrought by human activity, even in the absence of absolute proof of a connection between individual storms, extinctions, and economic catastrophes, and rising levels of CO2.

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

Federal scientists have issued an Arctic «report card» driving home the reality that the frigid, untouchable Arctic etched in human history and lore is truly history, replaced by a region that is seeing long - term warming, reductions in sea ice and glaciers and shifts in ecosystems (not to mention intensifying economic activity).

If it's caused by human activity there's little point creating major economic dislocations that will have no effect.

Former President George W. Bush held that there was insufficient information to conclude global warming was caused by human activity, but that the economic harm of regulating heat - trapping gases was certain.

Further, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) defines land degradation as a reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain - fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a process or combination of processes, including those arising from human activities and habitation patterns, such as: (i) soil erosion caused by wind and / or water; (ii) deterioration of the physical, chemical, and biological or economic properties of soil; and (iii) long - term loss of natural vegetation.

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification defines land degradation as a reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas, of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain - fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest, and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a process or combination of processes, including processes arising from human activities and habitation patterns, such as (i) soil erosion caused by wind and / or water; (ii) deterioration of the physical, chemical and biological or economic properties of soil; and (iii) long - term loss of natural vegetation.

In a poll of scientists in different fields by Doran and Kendall Zimmerman (2009), 97 % of those who published at least half of their peer - reviewed research in the climate field agreed that human activity was significant in changing global temperature; at the other extreme, only 47 % of economic geologists (typically employed by oil companies and the like) concurred.

OFAC is the US Treasury Department, which is responsible for economic and trade sanctions against countries and individuals accused by the US authorities of involvement in terrorism, drug trafficking, human rights violations, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, transnational organized crime and other unlawful activities.

The various kinds of research undertaken by an anthropologist revolves around activities such as study of social, economic and behavior of human beings, understanding culture, customs, values, habits of human beings, research earlier biological evidence for better understanding of modern day living etc..