Sentences with phrase «change on our civilization»

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«For our civilization to become a new kind of entity on the planet, we need to live comfortably, over the long haul, with world - changing technology,» David H. Grinspoon, an astrobiologist at the Library of Congress, said Dec. 12 here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

It would not be unreasonable to see the Bible's changing perspective on God as due to the historical context... with God's most ruthless actions taking place in the distant path when, perhaps, natural disasters had greater impact on civilization.

The development of modern machine technology in industrial society has wrought profound changes in the relationship between work and leisure, with correspondingly far - reaching effects on the values of civilization.

The change that occurred with the rise of civilization was that the influence of the receptive consciousness on the symbols of the reflective consciousness grew stronger, but without destroying the overall dominance of the unconscious.

He observed «everything Benedict XVI said does not... change the fact that... the deviation of Western civilization from human values is on the verge of destroying it, and that Islamic civilization is about to re-emerge — to the benefit of the whole of humanity.

Therefore, we are losing that spiritual basis, and our civilization is changing and on the way to destruction, unless we can reverse the process.

On the other hand, however, many civilizations, especially the more liberal ones of the present epoch, have been painstakingly careful to acknowledge the possibility of a personal change of heart and to enable the person to escape the more painful consequences of his own past behavior provided he is genuinely repentant.

The White House approved a report that found the earth is experiencing the warmest period in the history of civilization and humans are to blame, despite the fact that it directly contradicts much of the Trump administration's position on climate change.

This is the pairing of biology and technology that a number of prominent organizations such as the IPCC and DOE rely on to provide any hope that civilization will begin to combat climate change.

Infections lurking on the margins of civilization are becoming more likely to cause outbreaks as the climate changes, researchers say.

Such is the scenario the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints in its recent report outlining ways climate change can be mitigated as civilizations across the globe continue to burn fossil fuels with little sign they'll stop anytimeChange paints in its recent report outlining ways climate change can be mitigated as civilizations across the globe continue to burn fossil fuels with little sign they'll stop anytimechange can be mitigated as civilizations across the globe continue to burn fossil fuels with little sign they'll stop anytime soon.

Cordain claims that these changes have created a detrimental effect on our health and declares that they are responsible for the diseases of modern civilization including obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Additionally, Andrea is a dedicated health leader on the Board of Directors for the acclaimed Center for Integral Wisdom, an activist think - tank dedicated to partnering with leading thinkers and change agents to formulate and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization.

Those on the edge of civilization, who ate refined flour products, sugar, sweetened goods, canned goods, and white rice had tooth decay and changed facial and dental arch forms.

24,000 - Year - Old Butchered Bones Found in Canada Change Known History of North America (Read the article on one page) Madrasian Culture; Soanian, c. 500,000 BCE; Neolithic, c. 7600 — c. 3300 BCE Bhirrana 7570 - 6200 BCE; Indus Valley Civilization, c. 3300 — c. 1700 BCE

David Simon and his writers... aren't out to change the world; the slippery slope of civilization is already in place on The Wire and Simon is just out to document how each and every person survives.

These capacities, while quite vague, put the focus directly on the skills of students (e.g., sufficient oral and written communication skills to enable the student to function in a complex and rapidly changing civilization; sufficient knowledge of economic, social, and political decisions to enable the student to make informed choices;...).

A: Western society has changed the world by introducing a new type of civilization, based not (as in the pre-modern period) on a surplus of agricultural produce, but on technology that enables us to reproduce our resources indefinitely.

Thomas Cahill is the author of the bestselling Hinges of History series (a planned seven part series) including How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (1996), The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (1999), Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (2001), Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why The Greeks Matter (2004), Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe (2006), and A Saint on Death Row (2009).

A lot of the talk around Civilization V before the games release was on the new hexagon setup which to be honest is a change for the game but nothing that really changes the way you play the game.

Drawing on everything from 18th - century rococo to 1970s punk, her recent work shows images of people surviving after civilizations collapse, though the nature of the cause is unclear, whether from climate change, social injustice or financial meltdown.

Drawing on the theory of technological singularity — which holds that invention of artificial superintelligence will prompt uncontrollable technological growth, resulting in unimaginable changes to human civilization — the artist explores how art can respond or adapt to such change.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

Will human civilization on Earth be imperiled, or enhanced, by our own world - changing technologies?

Anyone who thinks that there is any genuine «debate» about either the reality of anthropogenic global warming and consequent climate change, or the grave threat not only to human civilization but to all life on earth if unmitigated, «business as usual» anthropogenic global warming and consequent climate change are permitted to continue, is profoundly misinformed.

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

Changes needed to preserve creation, the planet on which civilization developed, are clear.

Thus although I believe strongly in thinking hard about our paleolithic roots as indicators of our mental and civilizational capabilities (see my most recent novel «Shaman») I also think we are changing culturally, and can now think on the scale of centuries, and plan and act accordingly as a civilization.

Then came a talk on Energy, Complexity and Human Survival by Thomas Homer - Dixon of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation and Balsillie School of International Affairs, who studies global risk, governance and change and is the author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization and «Environment, Scarcity, and Violence ``:

If we don't change our behavior, in 50 years we'll be on a planet inhospitable to modern civilization.

It is clear that some people are willing to put profits and their own fanatical free market fundamentalist ideology ahead of truth, human life, and in the case of climate change, human civilization and most of the rest of life on Earth as well.

The difference in the case of climate change from burning fossil fuels is they are putting human civilization itself at stake, as well as most of the rest of life on Earth.

The conclusion of the forecast was that civilization would either put a tax on carbon or fail in controlling climate change.

Addressing climate change is as much about addressing inequities as it is about, you know... saving civilization and future life on Earth.

After talking with dozens of climatologists and related researchers, David Wallace - Wells writes about what will happen to the Earth and human civilization without taking «aggressive action» on slowing climate change.

Based on Lester Brown's latest book, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, the presentation lays out the threats facing our civilization, including food insecurity and climate change, and presents the Plan B proposals for sCivilization, the presentation lays out the threats facing our civilization, including food insecurity and climate change, and presents the Plan B proposals for scivilization, including food insecurity and climate change, and presents the Plan B proposals for solving them.

In a sentence, here's what they found: On our current path, climate change could pose an irreversible, existential risk to civilization as we know it — but we can still fix it if we decide to work together.

It will be difficult for people to face the truth when their reputations, careers, government grants or hopes for social change depend on global warming, but the fate of civilization may be at stake,» he added.

I wrote my masters dissertation on the rise and fall of various western civilizations due to changes in the weather back in the mid 80's before climate change was on my event horizon.

In this regard, the staggering enormity of the current challenge to the world to prevent dangerous climate change is rarely commented on in the US media despite the fact the 25 year delay in facing this problem has now made the problem a civilization challenging problem.

So we are going to change our entire civilization based not on science but upon someone's estimate of future possibilities!

In no way can my summary of the research regarding the impact of regional climate change on the Viking civilization and Europe during the Little Ice Age be used to «prove» the current global warming is due to a natural cycle.»

Given the enormity and harshness of impacts to hundreds of millions of people around the world from climate change coupled with the fact that United States has a special responsibility for the civilization challenging problem because of the comparatively large levels of the emissions coming from America, the failure of the US media to describe strength the scientific consensus on change is a grave and tragic error.

They note that the optimum CO2 level for maintaining a planet similar to that on which civilization developed is likely to be less than 350 ppm, but a 350 ppm target already reveals that dramatic policy changes are needed urgently.

Ethics and climate has explained in numerous articles on this site why climate change policy raises civilization challenging ethical issues which have practical significance for policy - making.

Given the civilization challenging nature of climate change, many observers of the failure of governments to respond to the threat of climate change have concluded that creating a strong social movement on climate change is the best hope of preventing catastrophic harm from human - induced warming given the enormity of the challenge facing the world.

(See for example, Brown, 2010a) This is so because climate change must be understood as a civilization challenging ethical and moral problem and the failure to acknowledge and act on this has been responsible for an inadequate global response to climate change's immense threat during the twenty years of international negotiations that have sought to reach agreement on a global solution.

(IPCC, 2007: 776)(Also see, What You Need To Know to Understand the Scale of the Climate Change Problem and The Continuing US Press Failure to Report on the Urgency of this Civilization Challenging Threat)

(See, What You Need To Know to Understand the Scale of the Climate Change Problem and The Continuing US Press Failure to Report on the Urgency of this Civilization Challenging Threat)

Exploring the Transition to a Sustainable Future on a Finite Planet To prosper for very much longer on the changing Earth humankind will need to move beyond its current fossil - fueled civilization toward one that is sustained on recycled materials and renewable energy.