Sentences with phrase «effects on civilization»

After 20 years of happily Wine history from the standpoint of its social effects on civilization and commerce.

On a long view of the history of ideas, and freely conceding the twists and turns of intellectual fortune along the way, William of Ockham is the beginning of the line that eventually leads to Nietzsche's «will to power» and its profound effect on the civilization of our times.

Even more than the Roman Catholic Church, Protestantism rose to the challenge and came to the year 1914 with improved morale in Western Europe, with a mounting effect on civilization, and with relatively a more extensive geographic expansion than any other branch of Christianity.

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The previous volumes» How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews» were extremely popular, and Cahill follows the same basic format here, presenting an introductory description of the world in which the gift «giver appears, a history of the protagonist (in the first volumes a people, not an individual), and finally an assessment of the gift «giver's lasting effects on history.

For Stark, refusing to acknowledge the influence of Christianity on Western civilization suggests an advanced stage of wrong - headedness: «What I find so astonishing is that the people who are willing to blame Christianity for having «destroyed» civilization for 2,000 years are unwilling to see that it had any effects on another level.

The development of modern machine technology in industrial society has wrought profound changes in the relationship between work and leisure, with correspondingly far - reaching effects on the values of civilization.

The effects on Western civilization of this imperialistic expansion have been both far - reaching and calamitous.

This event was of vast importance in the ancient world, not so much because of its direct effect on political or economic organization, but because of its effect on the minds of men and women who shared in the Mediterranean civilization.

«Advanced western civilization has had a destructive effect on all primitive civilizations it has come in contact with, even in those cases where every attempt was made to protect and guard the primitive civilization,» he said in a 1979 interview.

Even as industrial civilization reaches into the farthest corners of the globe to extract resources such as oil, timber and fish, environmentalists are striving to mitigate its deleterious effects on the biosphere.

All in all, thinking about the impact that a previous civilization has on Earth «could help us think about what effects one might see on other planets, or about what is happening now on Earth,» Frank said.

Cordain claims that these changes have created a detrimental effect on our health and declares that they are responsible for the diseases of modern civilization including obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

For the first two - thirds of this installment, which pits Holmes against archrival Moriarty (Jared Harris), once again bent on bringing Western Civilization to its knees, Downey pulls faces, effects Bruce Lee poses, and slides in and out of a mincing British accent.

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To avoid an ecological disaster that we, as a global society are heading towards, requires a «civilization metamorphosis,» one that reinvents the relationships between production and consumption, and their effects on the ecosystems of nature.

When you consider the effect for both good and bad that flight has had on civilization an effect even greater, it could be argued, than the atomic bomb it's remarkable that we know so little about the men behind the phenomenon.

7th grade: The geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Mayan civilization; landforms and climates of the Yucatan peninsula, and their effects on economies and development of urban societies; Mayan class structures, family life, warfare, religious beliefs and practices; and Mayan achievements in astronomy and mathematics.

Taking place before the events of Mass Effect 2 the game will center on Jacob Taylor, described as, «a biotic - powered super-soldier who stumbles across a plot to terrorize civilization's greatest beacon of hope.»

This week we have a number of iconic PC games just waiting to be installed on your computer with everything from the complete StarCraft 2 Battle Chest, to Civilization V. Feel like you missed out on the Mass Effect series?

Digic Pictures has also worked on cutscenes, teasers, and trailers for games like Civilization V, Darksiders: Wrath of War, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, Mass Effect 3, and the Assassin's Creed series.»

By utilizing Disaster Relief Volunteering as field research, Neumann reflects on the loss of space, the destruction of environment, urban civilization, and the temporal all while toying with the ideology of time and the effects of technology.

Baltz's photo series document the side effects of industrial civilization on the landscape, focusing on places that lie outside the bounds of canonical reception: urban wastelands, abandoned industrial sites, warehouses.

Their 2012 video and installation Ultimate Substance, for example, drew from philosophy, mathematics, and ritual in order to explore the effect the invention of money had on the development of Western thought and civilization.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

This is not the place for a discussion of christian apologetics, My comments have been about the Judeo - Christian ethic in general and its salutary effects on western civilization, in response to the main post's musings on the difficulties of deciding what is ethical in «science.»

Only completely blind denialists would posit that our current human global civilization is only having a «negligible» effect on the planet.

The primary current problem is that the climate alarmists are creating enormous problems in the generation and use of reliable energy necessary for the development and even the continuation of modern civilization, with adverse effects on the economy, human welfare, and even the environment, all for no significant benefits to anyone except vendors of renewable energy facilities.

These stresses are perhaps most evident in their effect on food security, which was the weak point of many earlier civilizations that collapsed.

And if we don't take urgent action NOW to quickly end our GHG emissions and draw down the already dangerous anthropogenic excess CO2, then AGW is likely to have horrific effects on the entire biosphere that will go far beyond merely ending human civilization.

Climate change will have devastating effects on human civilization under business - as - usual scenarios.

Replacement should not be undertaken unless the operating costs of the replacement are less than the operating costs of the plant replaced since it can have huge effects on the cost and reliability of the electricity so vital to our civilization.

Humans have been engulfed into various habits which tends to have adverse effects on their health and well being.Drinking, smoking, drugs have been a part of human civilization from early times.