Sentences with phrase «ecology of the planet»

At the core of the show, the contributions of Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Shiro Takatani, Cornelia Parker, Spencer Finch and Antony Gormley seem most to represent the apprehension, cause and effect of humanity's long - term abuse of the delicate ecology of Planet Earth, raising alternative questions of damage and survival to confront art today.

Reilly explained that he was «fascinated in seeing imagery of the geology and ecology of our planet at scales that were impossible to achieve previously.»

Inaction or complacency heightens risk, gambling with the entire ecology of the planet, and the welfare of everyone on it.

Thirdly, the Christian nations, made economically strong by both their political imperialism and their advanced state of technology, have not only constructed the weapons for nuclear war but also been most to blame for the selfish exploitation of the non-renewable resources of the earth, for the accumulating mass pollution, for the gross interference with the delicate ecology of the planet.

But a nuclear war would do such irreparable damage to both humanity and the ecology of the planet that it could bring an end not to specific acts of aggression but to all the higher forms of life on the planet.

Because our knowledge of the many delicate balances in the ecology of the planet is still in its infancy, and because what is known is not widely understood, the consequences of what the human race is (in its ignorance) doing to the earth may turn out to be even more serious than global warming.

We are driving massive long - term changes in the ecology of our planet, one ecosystem, one community, one species at a time.

Bees are crucial to the ecology of this planet so I really appreciate the fact that Burt's Bees supports bee conservation projects.

Speechless takes its cue from current discourse on the Anthropocene, described by writer Robert Macfarlane as «the new epoch of geological time in which human activity is considered such a powerful influence on the environment, climate and ecology of the planet that it will leave a long - term signature in the strata record.»

«The good news is that the main effect of carbon dioxide on the ecology of the planet has nothing to do with climate.

The second danger may be even worse: it reinforces the belief that there is some kind of climate normality, usually characterized as existing earlier in the twentieth century or before the Industrial Revolution (but after the Little Ice Age, which lasted from approximately the mid-1400s to 1700) that is desirable, even necessary, for our species and for the ecology of the planet.

Yes, those impacts must be addressed - I've said so repeated and it's been a part of my work for years - but if global warming is not also addressed, urgently and comprehensively, then most of the other moves to reverse human impacts on the ecology of the planet will have been for naught.

It's that they don't concur with the theory that any or the majority of such change is the result of human interference with the ecology of the planet.

There is certainly a genuine desire to commit to the ecology of the planet by most of its inhabitants, including lawyers.