Sentences with phrase «challenges confronting humanity»

«Energy security and climate change are two of the most significant challenges confronting humanity.

Bishop Davies looks at the environmental challenges confronting humanity under the headings of environmental destruction, involving biodiversity loss, habitat destruction and pollution of our life support systems; political violence, poverty and climate change.

The negative manifestations of these interactions are often referred to as «the human predicament» [10], and determining how to prevent it from generating a global collapse is perhaps the foremost challenge confronting humanity.

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«Abdessemed's provocative works confront uncomfortable truths about ourselves that challenge us to think critically about humanity, diversity, culture and idealism, and his visit will offer a unique learning opportunity for our students.»

If there is a probability that humanity could soon be confronted with a huge challenge, one that takes its astounding shape from overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species, then would reason and common sense not suggest that the human community could move forward by limiting increases in certain global activities, the ones now overspreading the surface of Earth.

Humanity could soon be confronted with a huge challenge that takes its astounding shape from continuously skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers as well as from economic globalization and per - capita consumption of limited resources by the human species.

Given the large scale and increasing number of human - induced global challenges being presented to humanity in 2008 with a mere 6.6 billion people on Earth, what do you suppose our young people can expect to confront in 2050 when 2 1/2 billion more people are added to our current numbers?

David Suzuki: 2011 quote: «Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront.

In a 2010 report in The Guardian, Lomborg acknowledged that global warming is «a challenge that humanity must confront.»

«The world's most high - profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is» undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today» and» a challenge humanity must confront», in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.»

This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress and economic instability?

We are confronted, he said, «with a choice which can not be ignored: either to improve or to destroy the environment,» adding that «climate change is a global problem» that represents «one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day.»