Sentences with phrase «effect social change by»

Black churches must begin to examine the economic realities of their existence, not in the light of their individual or denominational budgets alone, but in view of their tremendous possibilities to effect social change by utilizing the considerable resources that pass through their hands.

Not exact matches

The changes in social mood that govern antitrust action are broadly experienced by the populace and have other effects.

Ultimately the aim is to achieve the primary level of prevention by effecting the kinds of social change necessary to reduce the problems of alcoholism or drug dependency.

While the Evangelicals» concern for the social problems of their day was mainly practical and philanthropic, trying to effect change through Acts of Parliament and by giving relief to those in need, the response of the Church of England's High Church party, known as the Tractarians or Oxford Movement, was more theological.

Here I have in mind specifically those immediate social effects that can account for changes in religious establishments perfectly well by themselves.

But if one extends what has been found in other situations, it is possible that the mass media may be having a marked effect on religious faith by changing the very foundations of social perception and social reality by which religious faith is expressed.

To me, it appears rather that they prompt two fundamental questions: First, does the Christian in effect jettison his model of Jesus as the Suffering Servant if he pursues social change by violent means?

As a dedicated fan I can only ever hope to effect a change by using the social media but the fans in England should really use their advantage of being able to directly visit these games and demonstrate their vexation.

In addition, his research has involved the remarkable effects of continuous emotional and social support for the mother by a skilled labor support woman (the doula) on decreasing the complications of labor, changing the psychology of the mother and improving her behaviour with her infant.

New research from North Carolina State University and Palo Alto University finds that young black men and teens who are most likely to be victims or perpetrators of violence are also those who feel that they have the least power to effect social change - highlighting the importance of ensuring that young black men do not feel alienated by society and social programs.

The effects of global warming are the ecological and social changes caused (directly or indirectly) by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

Just as an alcoholic does not regain full vigor and health by stopping the flow of bourbon, but must address nutritional deficiencies, liver problems, as well as the social disruption of alcoholism, so a former wheat - and grain - eater must undo all the adverse effects that developed over years of consuming foods changed by agribusiness.

This year's lead actress Oscar race was perceived by many to be a matter of Meryl Streep's Margaret Thatcher, in the indifferently received biopic «The Iron Lady,» versus Viola Davis» Aibileen Clark, a maid effecting social change under the radar in early 1960s Jackson, Miss., in everybody's favorite book - club - favorite adaptation, «The Help.»

Bolstered by an impressive social impact campaign by distributor Radius - TWC — not to mention a terrific song by Lady Gaga — The Hunting Ground has been screened on campuses across the U.S., while providing resources for students to effect change at their schools.

The updated standards reflect research about the effect that social aspects — such as family engagement — have on education, as well as the increasingly complex role of school leaders, brought on by recent changes in state and federal policy.

Artists: Carmen Argote, Elaine Byrne, Nick Cave, Sky Cubacub, Frau Fiber, friends of light, Abigail Glaum - Lathbury, Ruby Hoette, Project KOVR, Fawn Krieger, Jennifer Moon, Marloes ten Bhömer, Marisa Williamson, Andrea Zittel Omega Workshop brings together projects by artists, designers, and activists rethinking the language of clothing to effect social, political, and environmental change.

The artefacts created by Tith thus act as documents of the effects of the economic and social development in Cambodia on the private and urban spheres, on the individual and her environment, and formulate a visual poetics that evoke the possibility of change.

by Deborah McNamara on February 18, 2015 2 dialogue and climate change dialogue and social change engagement giving people permission to care new forms of engagement power of conversation why conversation is important in effecting change

Dr. Pielke's work on climate change effects has been criticized by Dr. Stephen Schneider, who said that with Pielke «one consistent pattern emerges - he is a self - aggrandizer who sets up straw men, knocks them down, and takes credit for being the honest broker to explain the mess - and in fact usually adds little new social science to his analysis [3].

But in Issues, analysts have identified a more fundamental problem — the social cost of carbon dioxide is the wrong guide to follow — and they proposed an alternative method that better reflects what is known about long - term effects of climate change and how these effects should be valued by today's decision - makers.

«Climate change adaptation» is a term increasingly used to describe social efforts dealing with the effects of climate change, yet is unfortunately defined by a number of conflicting environmental and social goals.

• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.

Costs are defined in a variety of ways and under a variety of assumptions that affect their value ► Cost types include: ► administrative costs of planning, management, monitoring, audits, accounting, reporting, clerical activities, etc. associated with a project or program; ► damage costs to ecosystems, economies and people due to negative effects from climate change; ► implementation costs of changing existing rules and regulation, capacity building efforts, information, training and education, etc. to put a policy into place; ► private costs are carried by individuals, companies or other private entities that undertake the action, where ► social costs include additionally the external costs on the environment and on society as a whole.

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health and well - being are threatened by climate change because of: effects of sea level rise and decreased biologic diversity on the economic viability of agriculture, tourism, and indigenous communities; water scarcity and famine; mass migrations; decreased global stability46; and potentially increased violent conflict.47 These effects will likely be greatest for communities already experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.48

And you still haven't answered the question as to what is the ideal climate, how does it differ from today's climate, who determined the ideal climate, what factors were evaluated in making the determination, what evidence confirms that the controls on anthropogenic CO2 proposed by the climate experts would indeed establish and maintain the optimum climate, and whether the the political, economic, and social changes that would be required to do the controlling would on balance be less harmful than the effects of the postulated (but unsubstantiated) climate changes.

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health are threatened by the specter of far - reaching effects of unchecked climate change, including community and global instability, mass migrations, and increased conflict.

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

But it was cold this winter and C02 is plant food and only a trace gas and the greenhouse effect has been disproved anyway and even if the greenhouse effect does exist, C02 has negligible impact compared to water vapour and our only source of heat is the sun so it must be the sun, unless it is due to the C02 from volcanoes, but C02 follows warming so it can't be the C02 and the medieval warm period was warmer anyway and all the temperature reconstructions that show this not to be true are produced by corrupt scientists being paid by corrupt governments that have colluded to create an excuse to form a one world unelected social - ist government and even if the scientists are not that corrupt, although the e-mails prove they are, they have still got it wrong as the climate sensitivity is not as high as they think it is because it is basically the planets orbits and cosmic rays so we can say for a fact that the warming that probably does not exist is definatley not due to humans and even if it was the evidence is not sufficient to make drastic changes to the economy and increase taxes so that the politicians and scientists and business leaders get rich and leave us all poor — do they think we are stupid or something?

All too often we hear of off grid living as a form of isolationism, or a retreat from coming social and environmental challenges, but the fact is that we are all interconnected — and many of the back - to - the - land types will find themselves equally impacted by the effects of resource depletion or climate change.

What I mean by this question is that climate change poses a real challenge to social change movements because it is gradual, delayed in its effects, and uneven in its impacts.The message that is coming from climate scientists at present, along with climate - hawkish public figures, is that we still have time to change — that international conferences, evolving public policies, steady but small annual emissions reductions, could still prove sufficient to keep us within the «safe zone».

She argued that the social media - driven campaign to raise awareness of the prevalence of sexual abuse and effect systematic change made it nigh - impossible to «select a jury that is untainted by the veritable flood of reporting on the subject».

If law societies regulated fees, I suggest it would have two effects (1) increase both the availability of legal services to the poor generally, and the size of the pool of potential clients who could seriously even consider retaining a lawyer, and (2) in the long term, change the character of the legal professional (as a collection of individuals) for the better by making the practice of law more like social work, rather than drawing in the sorts of people who's skills are better employed in such fields as sales and business entrepreneurship.

Social media has — and will continue to have — a profound effect on the legal directory landscape by changing the way in which information is delivered and consumed.

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