Sentences with phrase «civilization by»

The good and more stable weather and much higher CO2 levels relative to the previous Ice Age made possible by the Holocene appears to be what enabled the development of human civilization by enabling the cultivation of crops rather than hunting and gathering.

Finally, the discovery and use of fossil fuels enabled humans to escape the backbreaking manual work that characterized earlier human civilization by allowing the development of modern economies with all the conveniences that energy use makes possible in high income countries.

Founded in 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico by social entrepreneurs Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, Bioneers advances the great transformation underway in human civilization by serving as a seed head for game - changing social and scientific vision, knowledge and practices that honor the genius of nature and human ingenuity.

Barton Paul Levenson has forecast the end of human civilization by 2050 due to AGW.

GMOs can save civilization by addressing the major challenges of food security, carbon emissions, and environmental stewardship in a way that benefits farmers, consumers, and biodiversity writes Val Giddings in Innovation Files.

Paraphrasing, «It could be as bad as the end of civilization by 2050, so the world needs to spend $ 140 trillion to prevent that from happening.»

In what they deem the «Silurian Hypothesis,» Frank and Schmidt define a civilization by its energy use.

When museums first truly came to the United States, it was part of an American effort to claim a seat at the table of Western civilization by brandishing collections of antiquities and masterpieces (the Met, our first world - class institution, was meant to be encyclopedic like its cousins the Louvre and the British Museum).

This Home City is a persistent support mechanism for your real - time civilization by allowing you to send shipments of resources, units, or other bonuses that can be customized based on experience and leveling that is earned.

You've got to help your base rebuild from the ruins of civilization by collecting critical supplies while avoiding roving zombie hordes.

You will learn all about this highly advanced civilization by strolling amongst its gargantuan ruins.

Archaeologists deal with the chronology of the Maya civilization by dividing it into the Preclassic, Classic and Postclassic periods.

, it is necessary to understand the thesis — the destruction of Western Civilization by Islamists using atomic weapons based on a Quranic prophesy.

Not unless their plan was to destroy our civilization by wiping out our least interesting locales first.

In humanities class, students simulate their own ancient civilization by choosing natural resources and technologies and seeing how their populations fare over centuries, while ignoring complexities like government structures and religion.

SOUND & VISION The Decline of Western Civilization by Chuck Stephens and «China Through the Looking Glass» by Aliza Ma

Harvard's Henry Lin led work that determined the soon - to - be-launched James Webb Space Telescope may be able to detect an alien civilization by analyzing its atmosphere.

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.

Solar storms can cause major disruption to human civilization by crippling large electrical power grids, global positioning systems (GPS), satellite operations and communications.

In what they deem the «Silurian Hypothesis,» Frank and Schmidt define a civilization by its energy use.

Protestantism, as he insists all along, «ruined» the integral march of Catholic civilization by introducing socially disintegrative ideas into the habits of European life, weakening the otherwise powerful sway of a unified religious political power.

Reforming fundamentalism was a means to an end, and the end they had in mind was nothing less than the «rescue of western civilization by a... revival of evangelical Christianity.»

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.

This is a common historical misrepresentation of cultures, in that the so - called Mayan Calendar did not originate from the Mayans at all but rather was passed down to them from the far older and more mysterious Olmec civilization by which they were preceded.

READ FAMILY AND CIVILIZATION BY CARL ZIMMERMAN and find out why the strongest civilizations perished.

The medieval monks of Ireland, Thomas Cahill has famously argued (see reading list below), saved Western civilization by their work in building libraries and teaching people to read well.

And yet they lack civilization by reason of the deficient generality of their mental functioning.

The same people who brought you the forced destruction of civilization by Christians from Europe with the loss of cultures in South America, Africa and North America.

For, Duff «looked forward to the supplanting of one civilization by another, the uprooting of Indian civilization and the substitution of the English.

We would get back hundreds years back from civilization by giving our country and our liberties to these people.

One such brilliant book was Civilization by Niall Ferguson (which I'm told was also made into this two - part TV series I haven't seen).

God takes care of innocent children, but wipes out certain civilizations by water, fire, or wars to protect others and the future generations, since He is the righteous Creator.

He helped formulate the concept of seeking alien civilizations by listening for their radio broadcasts; he lobbied for nuclear disarmament, believing that atomic power should be wielded only for constructive effect; and he helped Charles and Ray Eames create Powers of Ten, perhaps the most stunning science movie ever filmed.

Then they turned their perspective around and wondered what it would take to seek alien civilizations by looking for distant analogues of Dubai, or Las Vegas, or Times Square.

According to researchers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), we might soon be able to detect hints of technologically advanced alien civilizations by measuring high levels of polluting gases in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.

In Race for the Galaxy, players build galactic civilizations by game cards that represent worlds or technical and social developments.Each round consists of one or more of five possible phases.

Bring an end to civilizations by firing sticky, snotty projectiles at waves of enemies and absorbing whats left.

Considering the severe challenges posed to the global climate system, to species, and to human civilizations by rampant carbon emissions now in excess of 11 gigatons each year (nearly 50 gigatons CO2e each year), the new and increased availability of solar energy couldn't come soon enough.

Not exact matches

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

I wrote my thesis on the philosophy of history with the central argument that Industrial Civilization would collapse and either be replaced by a new emergent socio - economic revolution an order of magnitude higher than industrialization and agriculture combined, or we would go back to the stone age or extinct.

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.

THE whole picture of industry, business, and amusements, then, may be summed up by repeating that while there are certain industries which Jews dominate and certain industries in which Jewish participation is considerable there are also vast industrial fields, generally reckoned as the most typical of our civilization, in which they play a part so inconsiderable as not to count in the total picture.

Our faith in this cornerstone of civilization is tested daily, it seems, by bigoted pronouncements from anyone who can get their hands on a microphone or a keyboard, and by images of angry, swastika - festooned men carrying tiki torches.

When a civilization is destroyed by hubris, those who are left behind are forced to rebuild society, this time learning from our past mistakes.

I've been reading an historical novel — World Without End by Ken Follett — and it's got me thinking about how Western civilization evolved from the middle ages to the age of enlightenment.

Using historical examples from the dawn of civilization, Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History, first published in 1992, demonstrates how a misinterpretation of the monetary system — especially by government — can lead to mischief.

When the compass was invented by the Chinese during the Qin dynasty (221 - 206 B.C), it radically changed civilizations and ushered in many years later the Age of Exploration in the 15th century.

Much of Bennington County is rural, covered by Green Mountain National Forest and mostly untouched by civilization.

Paul Ryan is making headlines in the campaign's closing hours by saying that President Obama's policies pose a threat to Judeo - Christian civilization.