Sentences with phrase «devastating effect on human»

The world as this generation has known it is not meant to last — It's the culmination of the battle of the knowledge of sin and it's devastating effect on the human race.

Beyond this, it could also have devastating effects on human settlements of Arctic indigenous communities.

Through this narrative, Blechman calls attention to the very real problem of toxic blue - green algae and its devastating effects on human health, the fragile ecosystem of Florida's waterways and wildlife, as well as the state's economy.

Extremes of weather and climate can have devastating effects on human society and the environment (1,2).

Climate change will have devastating effects on human civilization under business - as - usual scenarios.

Not exact matches

His action spared much of the harm that some countries still face as result of the devastating effects of lead on human health.

The law and order of goodness and justice was broken by the first human beings, and this had a devastating effect on all of humanity since then.

It was eggshell thinning that devastated fish - eating birds and birds of prey, says Fry, and this effect is well documented in a report (pdf) on DDT published in 2002 by the Department of Health and Human Services» Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).

In humans memory can be said to define who we are; we know that loss of memory can have devastating effects on a person's personality.

After learning about the devastating effects of plastic pollution on the environment and human health, Oakland accountant Beth Terry began an experiment to see if she could live without buying any new plastic.

Inappropriate hormone levels can have a devastating effect on the developing human brain, especially during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy when the fetus depends on the mother's thyroid hormones for brain development.

The owners were especially grateful to have their dogs vaccinated for Rabies as they are very aware of the devastating effects of this disease on both humans and animals but do not have access to regular veterinary care.

He could, in fact, be one of six different protagonists (6 locks) working to protect or abduct the infant (the last non-poisoned human on earth) from the devastating effects wreaked upon the world.

There is so much very clear evidence of the devastating effects anthropogenic climate change will have on the natural environment and on us humans, that subjects of debate could just distract from the clear catastrophe we are heading towards.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

The effect of postmodernism on the understanding of the human world was far more devastating.

Mike Barnard last month was taken to task by researcher Jackie Rovensky of AU and NA - PAW (North American Platform Against Wind Power) for a long - standing series of malicious attacks on trusted and respected professionals worldwide, who have variously documented and researched the now widely recognized devastating effects of industrial wind on human health.

As dramatic as the effects of climate change are expected to be on the natural world, the projected changes to human society may be even more devastating.

Yet the authors marshal clear examples of ecological disasters that have already had serious effects on human society: the collapse of cod fisheries in the North Atlantic, for instance, and the outbreaks of mountain pine beetles that are devastating forests in the West.

In another massive human blunder, neonicotinoids are already in many of the pesticides used around the world, though we are only just now realizing the devastating effect they have on the natural world.

A new ice age could have very devastating effects on life on Earth, including humans.

It seems prudent (not idiotic) to want some tangible proof that humans are having an adverse effect on the climate before embracing changes that will devastate our way of life.

As we all know, the affects of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across this entire country have been devastating and continue to effect our human rights, our standard of living, and our ability to determine our own futures.