Sentences with phrase «ecological problems of the world»

Our aim is to develop and frame macroeconomic theories, applications and solutions to the severe economic, social and ecological problems of the world.

Not exact matches

Environmental philosophy is a growing subdiscipline within Western philosophy, characterized by the assumption that traditional Western metaphysics and moral theory are inadequate to the solution of environmental problems and that in our age alternative, ecological world views and axiologies are needed.

That people were essentially a problem, even a pollutant, rather than a resource; that social, political, economic, and ecological catastrophe was right around the corner, unless drastic steps were taken to stabilize and then reverse world population trends - these were the themes, familiar to even the most casual student of the American anti-natalist lobby, that set the agenda for Budapest and Mexico City.

Dr. Joseph Needham and Dr. W.H. Thorpe, Cambridge authorities on biochemistry and zoology; Dr. A.R. Peacocke, biologist in Cambridge; Professor L.C. Birch, Australian expert on evolutionary changes in the realm of living matter; and Ian Barbour, American physicist, whose special interest has lately been turned toward the ecological problem — these are but a few of the many who have publicly avowed their acceptance of a process way of looking at humankind and the world.

I would like to name two significant problems for which neither has yet been able to find a satisfactory solution: the impoverishment of the Third World not only through capitalistic but also through socialistic forms of exploitation; and, the ecological crisis.

On the other hand, there are horrendous dangers of worldwide misery implicit in the threat of nuclear war, extinction by ecological disruption, the explosion of population, and the political problems of governing the world's peoples during a period of such momentous crises.

In a world that is full of ecological problems it's not ethical to eat so much meat.

The answer to the problem is not the preserve of one discipline or scientist but will be found where several disciplines work together to tackle the biological, ecological, environmental, geographical, agricultural, and even sociological, economic, and financial barriers to feeding the world.

However, I have very little idea what the effects of AGW on humanity will be beyond the fact that it is an ecological disaster which can kill lots of people in the developing world (excellent reasons to do whatever it takes to get rid of it, in my opinion) and so I have a problem with responding to the argument that we need do nothing because at least as far as the DEVELOPED world is concerned AGW will be at most a nuisance.

Some of us see the world's ecological integrity as being in dangerously precipitous decline, and finding answers to what are clearly complex problems is vexing, to say the least.

World on the edge: how to prevent environmental and economic collapse — Powerpoint slideshow and PDF showing that demand for natural resources is outstripping supply (Lester Brown) The steady - state economy — Powerpoint slideshow questioning why economic growth is seen as the solution to the world's economic problems instead of a cause The steady - state economy and economic degrowth — Powerpoint slideshow arguing for «ecological ecomomics» (Blake Alcott) Review of People and the Planet — Powerpoint slideshow summarising the report (Richard Vernon) Growthbusters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 — Powerpoint slideshows about sustainability that can be used singly or combined (Sandy IrWorld on the edge: how to prevent environmental and economic collapse — Powerpoint slideshow and PDF showing that demand for natural resources is outstripping supply (Lester Brown) The steady - state economy — Powerpoint slideshow questioning why economic growth is seen as the solution to the world's economic problems instead of a cause The steady - state economy and economic degrowth — Powerpoint slideshow arguing for «ecological ecomomics» (Blake Alcott) Review of People and the Planet — Powerpoint slideshow summarising the report (Richard Vernon) Growthbusters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 — Powerpoint slideshows about sustainability that can be used singly or combined (Sandy Irworld's economic problems instead of a cause The steady - state economy and economic degrowth — Powerpoint slideshow arguing for «ecological ecomomics» (Blake Alcott) Review of People and the Planet — Powerpoint slideshow summarising the report (Richard Vernon) Growthbusters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 — Powerpoint slideshows about sustainability that can be used singly or combined (Sandy Irvine)

This is the lives of vulnerable people and our ecological systems at take — real problems with real - world consequences.