Sentences with phrase «ecological collapse»

Too much emphasis on history, therefore, pushes us in the direction of ecological collapse.

Here are some of the reasons why people fail to prevent ecological collapse.

We are on the brink of wide spread ecological collapse.

Excerpt: In a scary new book called Time's Up — whose free online version titled A Matter Of Scale you can read here — author Keith Farnish claims: «The only way to prevent global ecological collapse and thus ensure the survival of humanity is to rid the world of Industrial Civilization.»

This year Samman curated the Fifth Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, which focused on works that dealt with ecological collapse, network society, and the information age.

For example, you may have heard that a bunch of scientists produced a landmark report that concludes the earth is destined for ecological collapse, unless global population and consumption rates are restrained.

Underscoring the sobering words of the groups such as the Zoological Society of London and author - activists such as George Monbiot, that we're collectively rushing down a path towards ecological collapse, global eco-summits be damned, is a new piece in Nature (h / t Mongabay).

The increased production required to employ the present pool of available labor would surely precipitate ecological collapse.

«Ecological collapse circumscribes traditional women's work in Iraq's Mesopotamian Marshes: As the land at the heart of the cradle of civilization dries out, an ancient culture is being lost with the unique ecosystem that sustains it.»

Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern - day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse.

For Pilgrim's time with AIT he will build upon a new body of work entitled «ERASURE» that focuses on the body as a site of action in at a time of impending ecological collapse and the fusion between human, non human species and machine in an era of hypermodernity.

Furthermore, there are synergies in the collapse of individual sectors, most notably in linkages between ecological collapse and civilization collapse.

First, a speaker points to the prospect of 21st century ecological collapse: sloshing waves, ravenous forest fires, fathers weeping as their crops succumb to a drought.

This paper makes us totally rethink how ecological collapse happens.

Instead, he chooses to believe, against all available evidence, that we can continue with indefinite exponential GDP growth without causing ecological collapse.

Scientists and experts are increasingly concerned that we are entering an age of ecological collapse with untold impacts for future generations.

Keith Farnish is another scientist who seems to stray from hard science into misanthropy with statements such as this: «The only way to prevent global ecological collapse and thus ensure the survival of humanity is to rid the world of Industrial Civilization.»

It is a testament to the disproportionate impact of global warming on certain ecosystems to see just how far Mongolia has managed to slide towards ecological collapse.

• Some ecologists believe that we can not convert to an ecologically sustainable society with a new economics quickly enough to prevent ecological collapse.

Many Catholics, in this writer's experience, seem to think that any concern for «Green» issues, environmental degradation, ecological collapse or climate change is non-Christian and automatically puts you with the New Agers and pagans.

This mechanism explains the ecological collapse Paine observed on Mukkaw Bay.

They don't have a model for how «externalities», such as an ecological collapse, can lead to an economic collapse, because the basic factors are left out of the econometric models.

Knowledge of these thresholds is key to the sustainable management of ecosystems and to anticipating irreversible changes and / or ecological collapse,» wrote Alfredo Huete, a researcher at the University of Sydney in Australia, in an accompanying commentary on the study in Nature.

The Southern Reach had become a backward, backwater agency, guarding a dormant secret that no one seemed to care much about anymore, given the focus on terrorism and ecological collapse.

Climate change is real and an ecological collapse is already underway.

They are interested in Detroit as a precursor for potential / impending economic, social, and ecological collapse.

Through this edition's theme, «Oxygen», the festival aims to strengthen already existing public awareness on environmental issues through photography and film — exploring concepts of ecological collapse, perishing nature, industrial waste, human helplessness at facing wars, and destruction caused by immigration and urbanisation.

Nadim Samman — general curator of the biennial — suggests the theme reflects, like the work submitted to the open call, such cultural developments as «ecological collapse, the dissolution of distinctions between «nature» and technology, the inescapable topography of the network, and the interplay between transparency and opacity in the information age.»

I assume you mean global civilization's and or economic and political collapse and that you have at least a smidgen of hope that humanity might still come to it's senses and and implement radical paradigm change to avoid global ecological collapse.

Overuse of resources has driven us to ecological collapse, resource limits - driven collapse and climatic collapse.

And if someone insists that the word «catastrophic» in that acronym can only properly refer to GLOBAL catastrophe, not «merely» a multitude of local, national or regional catastrophes, well, there are a number of readily «imaginable» scenarios for AGW - driven global ecological collapse and the mass extinction of most life on Earth that are well within the bounds of scientific plausibility.

The pseudo-scientific ramblings by their leaders have falsely warned of mass starvation, ecological collapse, agricultural collapse, overpopulation... all so that the masses would support their radical policies.

«Never before has there been such a clear need for science to be at the service of a new global ecological equilibrium,» Francis told his audience, while painting a picture of a world on the verge of «ecological collapse» and a «consequent increase of poverty and social exclusion.»

Over the next 30 years, the concepts of ecological collapse, tipping points, and putting a price on nature would fleck the discourse of global political elites in the halls of McKinsey, Davos, and the U.N. Popular figures such as Thomas Friedman, Al Gore, Amory Lovins, Paul Hawken, and Bill McKibben would draw on concepts developed by the ecological economists Herman Daly and Robert Costanza to claim that economic growth undermines the planet's capacity to support human civilization.

One ecological collapse will lead to another, in amplifying feedbacks.

The anarcho - syndicalist can not appeal for comrades to take up class war without invoking the spectre of ecological collapse.

In this, we affirm one long - standing environmental ideal, that humanity must shrink its impacts on the environment to make more room for nature, while we reject another, that human societies must harmonize with nature to avoid economic and ecological collapse.

Averting climate catastrophe and ecological collapse is going to require that rich countries right - size their economies.

But his blind faith in growth, and his implicit denial of scientific evidence, is sure to lead to ecological collapse — entrenching the misery of the poor and immiserating the rest of us in the process.

From the ubiquity of assertions one sees that it is the poor and over-population that is causing the disaster, I suspect that the Right intend to make the global poor pay for the ecological collapse, while continuing their reedy excessive consumption as long as possible.

A new study from 22 respected biologists and ecologists says that the world may be about to undergo a «state shift» that will trigger huge environmental transformations, mass extinctions, and ecological collapse.

As he explained to Bohannon: «The grasslands are on the verge of ecological collapse.

Here are some excerpts summarizing this 32page paper: ``... we affirm one long - standing environmental ideal, that humanity must shrink its impacts on the environment to make more room for nature, while we reject another, that human societies must harmonize with nature to avoid economic and ecological collapse.