In the religion of
the coming global society, the forces of nature, the process of evolution and the existence of life itself will be the objects of respect and veneration.
• to place the needs of
the coming global society before those of our own immediate family, tribe or nation;
Not exact matches
Beth Pickens, Managing Director of
Global Consumer and Retail at William Blair, explains how
society has shifted from a «need culture» to a «want culture» when it
comes to retail.
I'm Chairman of such a civil
society structure,
global think tank called the Club of Rome, and I'm just
coming from Beijing, where they have informed me that the rules for registrations of civil
society structures have been streamlined and improved, so much so that this triangle can also be applied here in China.
Occupy Wall Street, kicked off by Adbusters in July and
coming to Toronto this weekend, has already spread to 70 American cities and is going
global as protestors challenge
society -LSB-...]
In
global climate change research in particular, natural scientists still tend to set the research agenda, and social scientists are often involved only after the natural scientists «have analyzed a process and
come up with solutions, and need social scientists to help sell those solutions to
society,» Hackmann said.
A group of experts all around the globe has
come up with a climate change report that aims to highlight the importance of risk assessment and the impacts of
global warming to the
society.
World Spay Day, which is organized globally by Humane
Society International and Humane
Society of the United States provides a unique opportunity for everyone who cares about animals to
come together towards a common goal — a
global, united solution to end the euthanasia, suffering and homelessness of companion animals.
Do Ho Suh: in between introduces the attempts of the artist in a
global era in which economies and
societies would
come to a halt without the intersection of people, objects and information to explore the self and make the world a smaller place, while negotiating cultures of different origins and moving to and fro between tradition and innovation, individual and group.
The dual meaning of «resolution,» as both
coming - into - view and overcoming conflict, defines a wide range of artistic responses to the
global shifts in
society and culture — world wars, disasters, financial collapse, environmental degradation, and violations of human rights.
The eloquence of their work in reflecting on the nature of the
societies from which they departed, and the character of those in which they
came to be rooted anew, will give us much to consider against the backdrop of the cataclysmic
global events that have caused massive human migrations in our own time.
The golf course as a leisurely symbol of consumerist
society serves as a counterpoint to issues relating to migration,
global warming and globalisation that eventually
come to the fore.
While the first part of the exhibition focuses on local involvement and the story of modern art in Europe up to the Second World War, the later part deals with the huge shifts in
society after 1950 and wider
global influences that
came into play.
The first reply
came from Bill Gail, the chief technology officer of
Global Weather Corporation, a past president of the American Meteorological
Society and co-chairman of the National Academies» 2017 Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space:
My hope is that in the very act of inventing tools to improve the environment, we will
come closer to understanding our place on the planet, as well as in a
global society of creatures like ourselves.
Finally, we returned to the science, and I addressed a theme that's
come up on this blog, and that I think contributes substantially to making the human response to climate change (or
global warming) a particularly vexing problem — the reality that while the basics of the science are clear, the science on questions that matter most to
society is not.
The
coming SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) framework includes a proposed set of four goals (oceans, climate, biodiversity and freshwater), which is a de-facto example of applying planetary boundary thinking to create a
global framework for safeguarding a stable environment on the planet for
societies and communities across the world.
Even if we had a steady - state
society based on «best practices», we would still need to be continually adapting to environmental changes — and that would be true even without anthropogenic change, which will be affecting
global conditions for centuries to
come.
I understand it is because in the last few years the temperature of the Earth has actually cooled so, rather than lose the momentum they had gained to make political inroads to underwrite
global measures to control
societies» behaviors when it
comes to things like use of fossil fuels, proponents decided to cut their losses and change the term so they wouldn't be obviously wrong to the masses as it snowed on various
global warming rallies.
First of all probably the biggest climate news of 2017
comes not from the scientific literature (is therefore not featured in the Royal
Society report), but from direct
global observations: based on preliminary data the current year is likely to rank among the three hottest years on the
global record — including 2015 (2nd) and 2016 (1st), with 2014 ranking 4th.
Kleidon's paper, to be published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society comes at a fresh angle to the familiar issues around
global warming - that of the laws of thermodynamics.
Civil
society groups have
come together under the the Big Shift
Global campaign to launch its Dirty Dozen briefing and Civil
society letter on the day of the One Planet Summit in Paris.
So even if it turned out that climate mitigation was unnecessary, we would still be in a better place as a
global society by making the
coming switch sooner rather than later.
For too long, too many of us (including the greenest of greens) have assumed that when it
comes to
global climate change, the enemy is industrial
society, or the economy, or human nature itself.
Then
came Andrew Montford's devastating report for the
Global Warming Policy Foundation on how Nurse (and his two predecessors Lord Rees and Lord May) had destroyed the integrity of the once - great Royal
Society by transforming it from a scrupulously neutral scientific body into a «policy - driven quango.»
Speakers
came from Brighter Green (a US non-profit action tank with a focus on food policy and equity), Humane
Society International, and the
Global Forest Coalition (an organization working for socially - just forest policy, with a special focus on Indigenous Peoples» rights).
Ed Scott (09:47:10): «Dr. Scambos: I think An Inconvenient Truth does an excellent job of outlining the science behind
global warming and the challenges
society faces in the
coming century because of it.
First, the setup for Ron's article: Back late 2009, in my efforts to figure out where the infamous «reposition
global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase
came from — the line spelled out in Al Gore's movie and in Ross Gelbspan's book «The Heat is On», which they portray as a sinister top - down industry directive that skeptic climate scientists are paid to follow — I ran across Naomi Oreskes» widely repeated Powerpoint presentation from 2008 where she said the leaked memo set containing that phrase was in the archives of the American Meteorological
Society (AMS).
Over the
coming year, WJP will support these programs by raising the visibility of their efforts and by fostering connections through its
global network of government, civil
society, academic, and business leaders.
Each year, IBM showcases «5 in 5» technologies
coming out of IBM Research's
global labs — five technologies that the company expects to fundamentally reshape business and
society in the next five years.This year, a «5 in 5 at a Science...
While solicitors» firms welcome job applications from students across all universities, there are advantages to going to one of the bigger, prestigious law schools listed in the above rankings when it
comes to job - hunting, as Jackie explains: «If you go to the bigger Russell Group universities, it is easier to meet representatives from
global law firms at campus events — a commercial law firm might sponsor your Law
Society Annual Ball or have a stand at a careers event.