Sentences with phrase «destruction of the planet»

THE biggest selling environmental books in history, predict the mass destruction of the planet.

They are witnessing «the wholesale destruction of the planet», or perhaps the death of a hypothesis, which is nearly as bad.

The Orthodox church, for example, has established the first day of September as a day of meditation and prayer to focus on the continuing ecological destruction of the planet.

It's a gorgeous game with ludicrously detailed and animated backgrounds that react to the in - game action, even going as far as to show total destruction of a planet if a character lands their strongest super move.

To longer follow an obsolete course of continuous, seemingly endless economic expansion will result in further biodiversity loss, even greater degradation of the environment and, perhaps, the irreversible destruction of the planet as a fit place for human habitation.

To come up with a list of the 50 people most able to prevent the continuing destruction of the planet, we consulted key people in the global environment debate.

Shortly before the final destruction of the planet, Cale (voice of Matt Damon) was given a map that would guide him to a space station called Titan, secretly constructed as a last hope in the event of alien Armageddon.

It is hard to see how anyone would benefit from the utter destruction of the planet, but remember that in 1985 there was a nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union that threatened exactly that.

It's a bit like the challenge Sisyphus faced to make headway in changing hearts and minds to adjust to the new reality of limited resources and anthropogenic destruction of our planet.

When you follow the parrot trail — from the relentless hunting that is decimating wild populations to the rampant deforestation that is clearing their natural habitats — it leads to the decline and the destruction not only of these treasured species but... eventually to our systematic destruction of the planet as we know it.»

Are you worried that the meat you eat, the weekends away, the central heating you accidentally leave on all day, the dishwasher, the washing machine, the oven, the baby, the pet fish, the drive to work are all contributing to the prolonged and painful destruction of the planet?

So it raises the question, if you don't live in California, but instead (for better or worse) inhabit some of the more cloudy or colder corners of the nation, then how can you contribute to saving the world, rather than accepting the default fossil fueled destruction of our planet?

There will also be other attempts of course to hold polluters accountable, but while polluters should pay a price for profiting over knowing destruction of our planet, it is our sovereign governments that have allowed, and oftentimes facilitated, the pollution to occur in the first place.

It's almost un-American to criticize capitalism and globalization (suck it Tom Frank) or to suggest that maybe there is a better way, but when a system leads to the possible destruction of a planet, even die hards have to stop and take pause, although I doubt they'd touch Klein's book, which is both unapologetic in its tone and approach and optimistic about slowing down the damage we've done.

If the worst calamities and catastrophes do not compel our leaders to act promptly against the ultimate destruction of our planet, not even their skepticism can be of use in the end.

But as it becomes increasingly clear that the world's political institutions are unwilling and unable to effectively address the climate crisis, many activists, including Pope Francis himself, are questioning the underlying economic forces that are perpetuating the ecological destruction of the planet.

Other scenarios the team explored include artificial rings of space debris, revealing a civilisation that has fallen victim to a Gravity - like space junk cascade on a grand scale, or the total destruction of the planet.

We hear a lot about how technology is breaking the bonds between people, taking away jobs or even paving the way for the destruction of the planet, yet stories such as Boivin's — which are becoming increasingly common — just aren't told enough.

I grieve that I probably will not see man's ultimate expression of his assinine qualities: the destruction of our planet.

The fossil fuel industry is knowingly profiting off the destruction of the planet; New York City and State pension funds must divest fully from fossil fuels.

The destruction of a planet may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of astronomers has found evidence that this may have happened in an ancient globular cluster of stars at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy.

Synopsis: Just before the destruction of the planet Krypton, scientist Jor - El (Marlon Brando) sends his infant son Kal - El on a spaceship to Earth.

For all the comic - book fans who can't get enough of grown - ups carrying ray guns and discussing the destruction of planet Earth, pretty lame effects and super-stiff acting keep this from being really great camp.

Somehow, a disastrous wedding and the destruction of our planet both manage to be equally horrifying and transfixing.

Where had all the movies about the destruction of the planet gone?

What do you do after you've impregnated Halle Berry with an alien, narrowly avoided the destruction of the planet and created a lifelike cyborg with a humanity complex?

Or, after an hour of barren rooms and emotional austerity, Hawke suddenly flies through a hallucinatory vision quest that swoops from the creation of life to man's destruction of the planet.

The trailers for «Infinity War» have all but confirmed what fans suspected at the end of «Thor: Ragnarok»: When Thanos comes calling after the Asgardians escape the destruction of their planet, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) hands over the Tesseract, the powerful artifact from «The Avengers» that houses the Space Infinity Stone.

Rob Stewart delivers an eye - opening film about the destruction of our planet, which should persuade audiences to take action to save our future.

It does a brief review about the concept of volunteering like first point, introducing us in the aftermath that can have in a society like ours, which is walking to the destruction of the planet.

During the destruction of his planet Krypton, Kal - El was put in a space pod and sent to Earth by his parents.

Things pick up shortly after Chaos on Deponia with our hapless hero Rufus once again attempting to make his way to Elysium by any means possible with the lovely Goal in tow, all while trying to prevent the destruction of his planet at the hands of the Organnon.

Twenty years after the destruction of the planet Romulus (which spurred the creation of the reboot time line), and without Ambassador Spock to keep the peace, the galaxy has deteriorated rapidly into political intrigue and infighting.

Sophia Al - Maria once coined the term «Gulf Futurism» to define a particular kind of aesthetic irony: the hyper - futuristic glamour and architecture of the Gulf since the 1980s, projecting a future image of itself, yet fundamentally enabled by the destruction of the planet through oil extraction.

How do you take on a growing popular movement that's figured out the link between the fossil fuel industry and the destruction of our planet?

Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!

Inhofe said that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was in the business of «brainwashing our kids» by releasing «propaganda» about climate change and the role that human beings are playing in the destruction of the planet.

The report, The Human Cost of Weather - Related Disasters 1995 - 2015, is intended to focus attention during the UN climate change conference — which opens in Paris on Monday − on the damage already inflicted by global warming as a consequence of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in turn as a consequence of the human combustion of fossil fuels and the destruction of the planet's forests.

We know that successful civil disobedience actions like those on May 8th — coupled with pressuring our cities, churches, universities and local non-profits to sever ties with the banks enabling the climate crisis — represent the most effective way for us to tell CEOs like Chase's Jamie Dimon that we will not stand idly by as you profit from the destruction of our planet.