Sentences with phrase «direct human intervention»

Direct human intervention via deforestation represents an existential threat to this forest: despite recent moderation of rates of deforestation, the Amazon forest is on track to be 50 percent deforested within 30 years — arguably by itself an abrupt change of global importance (Fearnside, 1983; Gloor et al., 2012).

Some community cats have a caregiver who watches out for them, but others may survive and thrive without direct human intervention.

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In the monarchical model, God knows the world externally, acts on it either by direct intervention or indirectly through human subjects, and loves it benevolently, in a charitable way.

That «other quarter» was probably not envisioned as God's direct intervention, for Mordecai was a realist who believed in the necessity of human agency; God's invisible providence undergirded human endeavor.

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However, any effort at assessing climate impacts on agriculture faces multiple levels of uncertainty, including uncertainty that a) accompanies all climate projections, b) is specific to agricultural projections, and c) is created by adaptive actions (human interventions) that can mask a direct climate signal.

Works such as her 1963 «Untitled (Fish),» which Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) is thrilled to have the opportunity to include in our upcoming auction, are notably absent of direct human presence, though traces of human intervention and its consequences are never too far from the surface.

Niether the idea that humans evolved naturally without a devine plan, or with a devine plan but without direct intervention, nor the idea that God might not exist, should change the fact that people are people, they experience pleasure and pain, have desires and goals, hopes and dreams, and are generally an amazing and precious thing, each one, etc..

It is doubtful that the Ashley treatment meets the criteria in the Council of Europe's Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (1997), Art 6 which provides: Subject to Art 17 (research on mentally disabled people) and Art 20 (removal of organs for transplantation purposes), an intervention may only be carried out on people who do not have the capacity to consent, for their direct benefit.