Sentences with phrase «consequences of human actions»

We live in a globally connected world, inundated daily with news of the potentially devastating consequences of human actions.

Printed in disappearing ink, this work reminds us of the precarious and irreversible consequences of human actions.

Topic: Endangered Animals and Rainforests around the World 6 Lessons (6 - 8 hours of learning) Suitable for 7 - 11 years Learning Intentions covered: To explain why some animals are in danger To locate and describe rainforests To explain the importance of a rainforest To explain the consequences of human actions To identify rainforest animals that are in danger To describe features of rainforest animals To explain «how» rainforests are being destroyed To understand that destruction of the rainforests is bad for animals and people To persuade somebody to stop destroying the rainforest To describe rainforest animals To identify skills people have in a rainforest To describe our differences and how they can enhance each other To measure humans and animals Resources also attached!

«Cancer is but one of the many awful consequences of human action in the Great Fall.

Greenfield (1980 p 30) notes that organisation «are the consequences of human action» where «people can do many things and that one thing can be built upon another.»

Researchers have warned that global warming must make fire risk ever greater, particularly in the US southwest, even though many blazes begin to race through the dry forests as a consequence of human action.

Not exact matches

Since humans are flawed creatures, we must recognize that each one of us is capable of being wrong or bad, so, the consequences of our actions must be consistent or no law and no amount of knowledge of any religion will matter.

«It» has an impact, but its impact is deterministic, it had no «choice» in the matter, it was just executing along determistically (Determinism is the philosophical idea that every event or state of affairs, including every human decision and action, is the inevitable and necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs.

Determinism is the philosophical idea that every event or state of affairs, including every human decision and action, is the inevitable and necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs.

likewise, even if Jesus had perfect knowledge of the consequences of His actions, as being fully human in addition to His divinity He would experience fear and temptation.

This in turn makes it possible to present the sacraments as a natural consequence of the relationship between Christ and his Church without making matter or human actions pre-determine divine grace.

The notion of women's autonomy» including absolute control over our own bodies» leaves us with an unrealistic sense of human power and an exaggerated sense of independence from the consequences of our attitudes and actions.

Building on the Platonic understanding of hell as the place where unpunished violations of justice are requited, Schall argues it is the consequence of our free will («the other side of human dignity») and of the significance of human action, opening up trains of thought in the direction of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body - and finding this all pleasurable, «even amusing» (p. 121) in terms of logic and reason.

Close attention to the natural world is called for, and especially to the consequences for it of human actions.

Humans enjoy or suffer the consequences of our choices and actions while we are here on the surface, in the light.

Whatever concept you may or may not have of a divine order or being (s), it is in most human's consciousness that actions or inactions have consequences and to violate others has penalties.

I'm not saying those Christians are intentionally not good, but it's a known trait of humans (ask any insurance company) that they are less careful when they are protected against negative consequences of their actions.

Accordingly, the social sciences may be expected to play an increasingly important role in liberal learning, as it becomes ever more evident that the conditions of human existence are not simply imposed by fate, nor the results of the interplay of blind, impersonal forces, but the consequences of deliberale human action.

It may seem that to emphasize the pervasive operation of the Holy Spirit, as well as to stress the Spirit's focal action in the life of Jesus and its consequences, will in the end reduce men and women to mere automatons used by God with no respect for their freedom, their dignity, and their own responsible decisions, without any personal or social human contribution to the process.

With sensitivity the priest endeavours to bring the penitent to see the true consequences of their action, which includes the wounding of their relationship with God, the Church and the wider human community.

«The NGO threaded a dishonorable path with suggestions that those who commit crimes against the law of the land hide under the cover of human rights to evade the consequences of their actions», GAW said.

The need to foresee the probable consequences of human activities has generated new techniques for monitoring environmental change and for assessing the impact of present and proposed actions upon the natural and social environment.

The actions of these «hostile neighbors» have severe consequences for weak states in terms of security, economic growth and human well - being.

«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.

Thanks to the study of past mistakes, and of the results of natural and human - induced processes, we can better anticipate and understand the consequences of our actions, and exert more control.

Decisions made today are made in the context of confident projections of future warming with continued emissions, but clearly there is more to do to better characterize the human and economic consequences of delaying action on climate change and how to frame these issues in the context of other concerns.

Dr. Zota's work focuses on using innovative, multi-disciplinary methods to: 1) identify sources and consequences of human exposure to environmental contaminants; 2) illustrate how environmental hazards may interact with social disadvantage and psychosocial stressors to exacerbate health disparities; and 3) evaluate the impact of NGO and regulatory action on emerging environmental health problems.

Instead Red Sparrow is altogether more grim, painting an amoral world of casual violence and abuse where actions have no consequences, criminals aren't held to account, human life is expendable and everyone would sell out everyone else given half the chance.

Such questions are tied to the creation of curriculum around bullying, because they involve recognizing levels of human connectivity, the consequences of words and actions, and the ways that culture shapes who we are and what we do.

Humans need to live with the consequences of their actions rather than make other people feel responsible for their mistakes.

Over the full 8 weeks, students dig deeper to learn about canine communication, consider the wider consequences of individual actions, the human + dog bond, and stereotypes and the media.

Human conscience must play a distinctive role in how we determine the ethical consequences of out actions in the future, and this, of course will affect the future of cultural globalization.

He believed that by pointing out the inequities, horrors, and foibles of human behavior he might somehow cause people to consider the consequences of their actions and ultimately, change.

As with inadvertent human - induced climate change, the consequences of such actions would almost certainly not be the same for all nations and individuals, thus raising legal, ethical, diplomatic and even national security concerns.

Essentially, all they said is that they acknowledge that global warming is due to unspecified human activities, that it will have ecological consequences (no mention of economic consequences, other than the insinuation that taking action of global warming might threaten economic growth), and that coordinated global action is required, but that economic growth and energy security must be taken into account, and that they'll meet to talk about it again.

We can both agree that we should work to minimize the human alteration of the chemical composition of the Earth's atmosphere, but still disagree whether we can skillfully predict the climate consequences of such actions.

Human obliviousness to the consequences of actions led to the complete destruction of the George's Bank cod habitat off the coast of Massachusetts.

Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»

These revisions are one example of a strategy we saw Carson use consistently: Add uncertainty at the level of ignorance to destabilize the science, then articulate the harms, hazards, or consequences behind our current actions, and drive it home with a visceral image of risk (which she does in this example through images of liver damage, the accumulation of DDT in milk and butter, and the ability of toxic chemicals to pass to breast - fed human infants, and to a fetus in utero).

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

In this context, for the Administration to have released a U.S. Climate Action Report with a chapter on climate change impacts that identified a range of likely adverse consequences, based on scientific reports including the National Assessment, could rightly be seen as an anomaly and appeared to be seen as a significant political error by Administration allies dedicated to denying the reality of human - induced global warming as a significant problem.

The potential consequences of climate change are great and the actions taken over the next few decades will determine human influences on the climate for centuries.

Because there is a real difference between environmental concern — where consequences matter — and environmentalism — where signalling adherence to the appropriate markers of concern (based on human action being presumptively destructive) matter.

In that world, you would be reading those stories because humans would generally understand and take seriously the probable longer term consequences of their actions.

In the latest attempt to cost the impact of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and the continuous rise in global average temperatures, all as a consequence of fossil fuel combustion and other human action, the economist Chris Hope of the University of Cambridge and the polar expert Kevin Schaefer of the University of Colorado have turned their sights on the Arctic.

Inasmuch as it is the IPCC brief and raison d'être to ascertain the impact and negative consequences of human - induced climate change and identify actions to mitigate against these, it is not at all surprising that IPCC would present a view that leans toward exaggerated negative impacts and consequences, in order to assure the continued need for its very existence.

Many also question the scientific validity of the IPCC projections of future anthropogenic warming and its consequences, especially the IPCC premise that these are likely to result in serious negative impacts, i.e. a serious potential threat to humanity and our environment, unless actions are undertaken to curtail human GHG emissions (principally CO2).

The fight has evolved from clashing over human actions and whether they are warming the planet to portraying the consequences of warming as harmful, insignificant or even beneficial.

Most books about climate change focus on some aspect of the science of the issue; some deal with issues of mitigation — that is, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases — or adaptation — that is, actions to adjust human behavior or infrastructure to the consequences of the warming that Earth will experience over the coming decades.

The current legal situation here is that if he were to be named, this would put him in danger in his home country, given his past actions and consequences in the UK, which in turn would sabotage the prospect of deportation in itself as he would have to receive asylum under human rights law.