Sentences with phrase «earth on an unprecedented scale»

In the present day human education is spreading its net over the earth on an unprecedented scale and by means of unprecedented methods of expression and diffusion.

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Over the past fifty years, consumerism across the world has fuelled consumption on an unprecedented scale, threatening to deplete the earth's resources and destroy the interdependent ecosystems and ecologies essential to sustain life.

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1 Earth - orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale.