Sentences with phrase «consequences for human»

West Coast LEAF has issued a press release jointly with the BC Civil Liberties Association, Pivot Legal Society, BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre, and Community Legal Assistance Society calling on the BC government to raise social assistance rates and address the resulting epidemic of food insecurity and the dire consequences for human health and safety.

Fortunately, his past report has some general principles — suggesting, for example, that government ensure that it have legal authority for decisions with particularly important consequences for human health and the environment.

However, if the ice sheet melted entirely, sea levels would rise by more than 7 meters, with obvious and severe consequences for human civilization.

We accept the IPCC consensus that climate change raises the risk of severe consequences for human health and security and the environment.

Author Nina Teicholz reveals how the past sixty years of low - fat nutrition advice has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment with disastrous consequences for human health.

The effects included in the model calculations are adverse consequences for human health, decreased timber and agriculture yields, reduced visibility, accelerated depreciation of materials, and reductions in recreation services.

Though such additional warming will have both positive and negative consequences for human beings and other life on the planet, global warming scientists believe that the negative consequences far outweigh the positive consequences.

And that brings deadly consequences for human health, in the United States and around the world.

Even on conservative estimates, current global warming is bound to have major consequences for human civilisation and for nature, as follows:

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now.

There is not even a shred of credible evidence that any warming we have experienced or will experience will, on the scale of things, have adverse consequences for human life on the planet.

This climate - induced biodiversity change has significant consequences for human well - being.

When somebody makes dramatic claims about some piece of «science» and its dramatic and dreadful consequences for the human race then bloody right I want to see what it is based on.

It is the economic consequences of proposed policies — i.e. consequences for human well being.

In addition, adaptation is necessary to address unavoidable consequences for human health and safety, food security, water availability, and national security, among others.

«We conclude that the 2 °C global warming «guardrail,» affirmed in the Copenhagen Accord, does not provide safety, as such warming would likely yield sea level rise of several metres along with numerous other severely disruptive consequences for human society and ecosystems,» Hansen and his colleagues wrote.

Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, heavy downpours, floods, and other extreme weather events are projected to become more frequent and intense, with serious consequences for human health and well - being.

But Hansen et al. have laid out a plausible (good enough to pass a very public peer review), if not likely, scenario that would have major consequences for human society.

Months after Harvey's floodwaters swamped Houston, the extent of the environmental assault is beginning to surface, while questions about the long - term consequences for human health remain unanswered.

It warned, «Climate change will have devastating consequences for human health from»:

Some of the changes include deleting a summary that stated: «Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment.»

On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growth.

Tropospheric ozone (O3, or smog) is a pollutant with widespread negative consequences for human health and crop production; it is also a greenhouse gas.

Extreme weather events are known to have serious consequences for human health and are predicted to increase in frequency as a result of climate change.

Climate change will have devastating consequences for human health... Malaria, tick - borne encephalitis, and dengue fever will become increasingly widespread.

We can no longer exclude the possibility that our collective actions will trigger tipping points, risking abrupt and irreversible consequences for human communities and ecological systems.

At this point, the evidence suggesting the existence of man - made climate change is undeniable, and climate change has dire consequences for the human race if ignored.

Failed software systems can also have catastrophic consequences for human life.

In fact, it is becoming more and more obvious the recommended dietary advice of a high carbohydrate, low fat diet has had unintended consequences for human health and athletes do not escape these impacts.

As a result, many resort to even stronger chemical pesticides, which may have greater consequences for human and environmental health.

In this session, we review the recent advances in the identification of non-coding mutations and structural variations that influence gene regulation and their consequences for human disease.

How can countries avoid food insecurity and even displacement of rural populations given its consequences for human security?

The current SNP map now makes it possible for genome - wide association studies to identify genes responsible for diseases and traits, with important consequences for human and companion animal health.

At a global scale, the international scientific community has indicated that average annual temperature will at least be 2.5 °F (1.4 °C) and likely 3.6 °F (2.0 °C) higher in the next century than it was between 1850 - 1950, with ensuing consequences for both human health and livelihoods (IPCC 2013).

The shellfish - harvesting industry keeps a careful eye on domoic acid levels, since it can have serious consequences for human health.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

«The big issue here is that human beings clearly changed the environment, and that these changes had real consequences for human history,» Kidder said.

«Burmese python's hungry escapades may have consequences for human health.»

«Investment will not guarantee that all negative impacts can be overcome, but business as usual will guarantee disastrous consequences for the human race.»

Interactions between these two genomes, which affect everything from health and physiology to fitness, have important consequences for human health and medical interventions such as mitochondrial replacement therapy in embryos.

That corresponds to 10 to 20 percent more Neandertal ancestry than previous estimates — and it may carry consequences for human...

«The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof (Ps 24:1); this can be carried so far even as to have practical consequences for human social organization, as in the principles underlying the law of Jubilee, that no human being can ever own land outright but must be regarded as a tenant installed by God (Lv 25:1 - 34).

From the early 1970s I was aware that among those who were newly conscientized to the destruction of life - support systems, some were concerned only with finding ways of avoiding negative consequences for human beings.

What would the consequences for our human faith have been?

Thus globalization and the advent of the open society, while bringing great benefit to the individual, can have serious consequences for human society.

We see the appalling consequences for human well - being of living life at inhuman speed.

There is first, the consequence for human freedom.

It's important to note that this is a normal consequence for any human being and can happen to both doctors and midwives.

This would have serious consequences for humans, considering that a large portion of land around the world is grassland.»

This is important to better understand the complex reactions of communities to ocean change and anticipate their consequences for us humans.»