Sentences with phrase «destruction of life on this planet»

No matter how the breakdown of the «modernization» syndrome might occur, Heilbroner envisages a relapse into traditional authoritarianism as the most likely result, providing, that is, that the worst outcome, total destruction of life on the planet, is avoided.

Once the oceans warm to a certain level, and that methane is released into the atmosphere, we will be at the point of no return, the point from which there will be nothing we can do to halt the destruction of life on this planet as we know it.

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Thus far I have primarily showed how Christians can remove the barriers that have blocked their participation in a healthy response to the destruction of the basis for continued life on the planet.

The weapons seem to be those of maximum imprecision, and their use in the present state of armament practically guarantees mass destruction, and the possibility of total destruction of human life on this planet.

In modern forms it grants that through human sin and folly life may indeed end on this planet — a possibility that has become the more acute through the unleashing of nuclear energy and the advance of ecological destruction.

Consequently, political leaders and military men continue to advocate these new weapons of mass destruction without regard to their incompatibility with the international law of human rights, let alone the norms of civilized life on this planet.

Although destruction is more gradual on the continents, the same forces plundering Hawaii are likely to deprive the planet of as many as half its life - forms within just a few thousand years.

«This cosmic cycle of death and destruction has without a doubt affected the history of life on our planet,» Rampino observes.

The film tells the story of Senn (Justin Long) and Mala (Evan Rachel Wood), two rebellious alien teens living on the beautiful planet Terra, a place that promotes peace and tolerance, having long ago rejected war and weapons mass destruction.

After decades of speculation about life on other planets, the people of Earth discover that they are not alone in the universe when destruction rains down from the stars on 12 major cities all across the globe.

Activists need to buy stocks, attend shareholder meetings, and insist that the firm they have invested in stops contributing to the destruction of diverse life on this planet.

(3) Other cases are described on my Columbia University web site, e.g., Switzerland finances construction of coal plants, Sweden builds them, and Australia exports coal and sets atmospheric carbon dioxide goals so large as to guarantee destruction of much of the life on the planet.

But few faith - based statements on the environment have demonstrated the moral force — or sweeping vision — of Pope Francis» environmental encyclical, Laudato Si» (or, Praise Be to You) Released in June, Francis» 184 - page message laid out a stinging condemnation of industrial society's reckless destruction of natural systems and articulated a radical ideal of our ethical responsibilities toward the rest of life on Earth... Francis» impassioned message makes clear that the effort to protect our shared planet — and to ensure that all people have the same basic access to clean air, clean water and a livable environment — is among the greatest moral tests of our time.