Sentences with phrase «ecological issues as»

There was, for example, in the eighties an Interfaith Colloquium against Apartheid and there were various interfaith gatherings on ecological issues as well as interfaith prayer and work for peace, but the Parliament for a moment captured the attention of the world and sought to show, at a time of intense conflict in former Yugoslavia and of communal troubles in India, that religions need not be a cause of division but could unite on certain basic ethical teachings.

Not exact matches

They may frequently engage moral questions in institutional contexts where the theological warrants for a specific ethical issue may not be honored — as when they advise on matters of medical ethics, public policy and ecological practice.

Thus the particular historical exigencies and social possibilities in our own age will necessarily affect the ways in which these values are translated into norms on such issues as women's rights, sexual ethics, social justice, property rights, energy policy or ecological concerns.

The ethical issues that have become important as a result of the ecological movement have been germane to Whiteheadian thinking all along.

Since then, for a number of reasons (air and water pollution, health concerns ignored and in fact unknown by scientific medicine, ecological issues), this questioning of the omnicompetence of the scientific method to uncover the truth, and of the creative value of technological «progress,» has deepened and spread and now penetrates much further into the culture as a whole.

David Landry does not hesitate to speak directly to corporate social issues about abortion, drug abuse, ecological rape, or minority rights in Metro City and beyond because he understands social contextuality as the norm for the Word realizing itself.

The ecological crisis as a complex issue includes various problems such as poor technology, economic and developmental model.

After religious pluralism and ecological issue have been recognized as realities of the present, the ecumenical movement has widened their internal and external dialogues to include adherents of both ideological and religious faiths who have provided their insights to the churches in clarifying their contribution to humanizing modernity.

As feminist theologians, such as Rosemary Ruether, take the ecological issues with increasing seriousness, more bridges are built between process theology and feminist theologAs feminist theologians, such as Rosemary Ruether, take the ecological issues with increasing seriousness, more bridges are built between process theology and feminist theologas Rosemary Ruether, take the ecological issues with increasing seriousness, more bridges are built between process theology and feminist theology.

Our ecological crisis should be seen as a justice issue.

I am wondering if you could recommend an alternate to the palm shortening, as I don't use palm oils due to ecological issues.

There is some evidence that consumers who have recently entered the organic market are less motivated by ecological issues and are more interested by organic food as a safe product87.

Her highest priority is to encourage scientific critical thinking by using the farm as a living laboratory to understand sustainability, climate change, and ecological issues throughout New England.

A recent issue of National Geographic described ecological invasion as a «green cancer.»

Meanwhile, in Australia, as summer temperatures hovered near 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47 degrees Celsius) and murderous flames converted forests into carbon dioxide, a new book entitled Overloading Australia: How Governments and Media Dither and Deny on Population issued an unusual ecological battle cry: ignore all admonitions to conserve the country's increasingly scarce water supplies until the government eliminates «baby bonuses» in the tax code and clamps down on immigration.

The sphere of daily life for Marsh Arab women has shrunk as the natural resources they traditionally cultivated have vanished, reports an international team of researchers in «Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) desiccation on the cultural knowledge and livelihood of Marsh Arab women,» published today in the March 2016 issue of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, a joint journal of the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China.

Dysfunctional microbiomes are associated with issues including human chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and asthma; local ecological disruptions such as the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico; and reductions in agricultural productivity.

Opinion articles provide a platform for more subjective essays on ecological and evolutionary topics (including historical or neglected issues as well as more contemporary material).

At risk of going beyond the theme of this thread, I offer up excerpts from it because I think Orr's review speaks indirectly to the larger issue of how we as humans and as a global society are reacting to the findings of the earth sciences regarding anthropogenic global warming, climate disruption, and their ensuing ecological and socio - economic consequences:

As a scientist and conservationist, this latest dress design represents a critical ecological issue.

War, as well as any other political or ecological issue, goes untouched here in favor of straightforward, lighthearted character drama.

Following an introduction to the topic and scientific practices, subsequent chapters discuss various ways predators hunt and prey survive, such as venom and camouflage, and touch on ecological issues.

Featuring contemporary work from the museum's collection by artists such as Andrea Bowers, Hans Haacke, Emily Jacir, Arthur Jafa, and Glenn Ligon, this exhibition explores the ways that these artists inform our understanding of urgent social, ecological, and civic issues — including security and surveillance, evolving modes of communication, and political resistance.

He's given this some thought, as his «Mars» trilogy imagines what might happen if Mars became inhabitable when Earth's over population and ecological issues threaten our world's existence.

Ryden's fascination with this subject matter issues from his interest and concern of ecological matters as well as the depiction of trees as the central image of a classical landscape.

The first gallery survey of five decades of pioneering work produced by this husband - and - wife artist partnership known as «The Harrisons», this exhibition focuses on works that address ecological issues within the artists» home state of California.

The group exhibition «Resistance After Nature» tracks the practices of artists who imagine and construct alternative approaches to such entangled ecological, political, and economic issues as Indigenous sovereignty and water rights, the fossil economy, ocean acidification, and deforestation.

Since emerging from the Glasgow art scene in the early 1990s, Simon Starling (British, b. 1967) has established himself as one of the leading artists of his generation, working in a wide variety of media (film, installation, photography) to interrogate the histories of art and design, scientific discoveries, and global economic and ecological issues, among other subjects.

A riveting artist whose dual investigations of ecological issues and archival resources have yielded everything from large - scale installations — entire overgrown felled trees, greenhouses, etc. — to 19th - century - style cabinets of curiosity containing a richly macabre array of dead animals that operate as invocations of both death and practical knowledge.

But much of my work indeed addresses ecological issues and the future of humanity, dependent on overlooked details such as the plight of bees.

When I brought this piece back from Iceland in 2011, I was thinking about issues of dislocation, and about the difficulties in navigation as we look for an exit from the worsened ecological crisis.

Diverse in subject, materials, and approach, each site - specific work addresses social, ecological, or political issues that are pertinent to the past, present, and future of the park as it celebrates its 30th anniversary year.

The issues in her work — behavior, cruelty, ecological disaster and manipulation of information emerge in quasi fairy - tale mode as paradoxes rather than assumptions.

His drawings, paintings, sculpture, and multimedia installations tackle ecological issues of waste, recycling, and nature as provider.

He sees the focus of Rio and related discussions as too mechanistic, and skirting around the need for fostering a new kind of «ecological citizenship» as a precursor to progress on planet - scale environmental issues:

The issues the designer wants to tackle are social reintegration, recycling, local production and resources, industrial contexts and the financial as well as ecological crisis.

However, in addition to our efforts to encourage a societal shift around profound ecological issues, we also get in the weeds, as it were, with our efforts to understand, measure, and minimize the environmental impact of our operations at the Institute.

Compounding these issues is the link between increasing green crab abundance and increasing ocean temperature, which has had severe ecological and socio - economic consequences in areas such as the GOM, where warming is occurring faster than 99 % of the world's oceans.

In their Perspective in this issue of PLOS Biology, Blomqvist et al. [1] set out to demonstrate that «Ecological Footprint measurements, as currently constructed, are so misleading as to preclude their use in any serious science or policy context.»

«Central to the issues we are going to have to deal with are: patterns of production and consumption in the industrial world that are undermining the Earth's life - support systems; the explosive increase in population, largely in the developing world, that is adding a quarter of a million people daily; deepening disparities between rich and poor that leave 75 per cent of humanity struggling to live; and an economic system that takes no account of ecological costs or damage — one which views unfettered growth as progress.

Although he successfully addresses the climate issue, it is clear that Stoknes has something bigger in mind as he expertly describes contemporary human relationships with the natural world and offers hope for a revitalized ecological link.

But, if you assume that there is such thing as «clean coal» and ignore CO2 emission issues, are you not simply pretending that there is no ecological crisis?

Voluntary simplicity must call people to a broader vision — a vision that sees the connections between ecological and social decline; between environmental and social justice, between personal choices and global issues — that emerges as a prophetic, compassionate response to today's world.

As the steam runs out of the climate change scare, so we can expect other ecological issues to dominate the ecological narrative: sustainability, population, and biodiversity.

We can the reduce the effects of industrialisation on the atmosphere by 50 % much more quickly by addressing these other issues first and realise as well other humanitarian and ecological benefits.

Instead, we present a vision for understanding the population issue as a powerful contributing solution to today's most pressing ecological and social challenges.

But for a person looking to see big ecological issues discussed, the Aspen Ideas Festival did indeed deliver, as promised, «inspired thinking in an idyllic setting.»

Individual initiatives bring a lot too: Raffa's blog, le Grand MÃ © nage (Spring Cleaning) started as a collection of ecological recipes for everything related to housekeeping issues, and publishes free downloadable books.

That lucrative industry attracts hopeful workers, which increases the general ecological impact: water management is now a huge issue, goats and pigs introduced as livestock are now decimating the natural ecosystems, and waste management and recycling programs need updating.

«The fundamental problem with issues such as Climate Change and Ecological Degradation is that they stem from a core problem, the exponential growth of human demands upon the earth, and thus the only solution is an end to that growth.