Sentences with phrase «environmental collapse»

In the past decade, however, several reasonable analyses of world environmental futures have emerged, and they show a definite likelihood of environmental collapse sometime in the next hundred years.

It is environmental collapse which will collapse the system.

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It's a one - two punch: the rich, big consumers of the world are consuming more and more (with no end in sight), causing a disproportionate share of the world's environmental destruction, while the poorest and most vulnerable populations (who are going to be hit hardest by environmental collapse) are growing faster than anyone else.

In the style of a natural history museum exhibit, audiences are presented with grotesque humanoid beasts from a confluence of pre-enlightenment fantasies and future environmental collapse anxiety.

In the style of cabinets of curiosity and natural history museum dioramas, audiences are presented with grotesque humanoid creatures from a confluence of pre-enlightenment fantasies and future environmental collapse anxiety.

If the source of apocalyptic environmental collapse has shifted — then it was topsoil, pesticides, and resource scarcity; today it is climate change, biodiversity loss, and unspecified planetary tipping points — the apocalyptic certainty remains.

Consequently, he argued that slowing GDP growth is necessary to avoid environmental collapse.

The pedestrian applicability of this point is obvious in this day of environmental collapse beneath the weight of technological exploitation.

Arnaud (Kévin Azaïs), facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic - minded Madeleine (Adèle Haenel), who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming environmental collapse.

But he's hilarious as a doomsayer who's paranoid about what he sees as the planet's inevitable environmental collapse and such a germaphobe that he wears a surgical mask on planes.

We face global problems in American militarism and impending environmental collapse.

It refers to the idea that the Arabian Gulf's present state «made up of interior wastelands», she writes about the concept in collaboration with Fatima Al Qadiri in Dazed Digital, «municipal master plans and environmental collapse [is] a projection of our global future».

I think that efforts to halt diseases such as avian flu are counterproductive, as they only lead to yet more excessive human population and merely delay the day of abrupt environmental collapse that will terminate more human life than saved by such efforts.

In Sandpoint, though, people were trying to move the stale chatter of environmental collapse out of the health - food store and into the 21st century — to pull each incongruous part of their community together and make their town, collaboratively, the blessed place they all knew it could be.

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It's a one - two punch: the rich, big consumers of the world are consuming more and more (with no end in sight), causing a disproportionate share of the world's environmental destruction, while the poorest and most vulnerable populations (who are going to be hit hardest by environmental collapse) are growing faster than anyone else.

«The goal is to start the global discussion about human behavior and the reasons we're not doing anything to avoid environmental collapse, and to refocus attention toward things society can do to become sustainable,» Ehrlich said.

«I suspect a fear of environmental collapse, of loss of control, is bound up with our interest in some of these films,» says Wheatley.

Eradicate the predators and we face what one expert calls ecological meltdown: a cascade of extinctions and environmental collapse — a world, as Quammen puts it, overrun by a «pestilence of nibblers, cropping the vegetation down to stubs.»

For example, a lake region suffering stagnation of its water might be one form of environmental collapse.

They aim to improve the wellbeing of people by guiding sustainable development practices to help avoid social and environmental collapse.

Scorched Earth takes place amidst a planet that suffered an environmental collapse, the air became dangerous to breathe, the water became toxic, and billions of people died.

Within these larger parameters I make sub-series that more deeply explore facets of environmental collapse.

From nuclear annihilation and techno - capitalist commodification to environmental collapse, manifest anxiety bursts from the artist's diminutive birdcage sculptures, now on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery.

In assembling an archive rather than producing art objects, Chan stresses the collaborative community - oriented process involved in the project, and shows how, in the face of social, political, and environmental collapse, there might be an antidote to the alienation of contemporary life in such collaborations.

Could our society — one obsessed with products, satire, social media, and environmental collapse — be interpreted by future beings as something completely different from our current reality?

Both were newly attentive to the modalities by which artists are positioning themselves in a world increasingly prone to environmental collapse, inequality and biotechnological governance.

This is proabably because the level of environmental collapse that occurs in a mass extinction leaves an impoversihed biosphere in its wake and time is needed for it to right itself.

The sad fact is that drastic consequences, such as war and environmental collapse, are the only thing that will force people to action.

Post-apocalyptic cautionary tale set in California, which is now a place of corporate control, rebellion, environmental collapse, and danger.

Potential sources of methane disaster, such as thawing permafrost, occur occasionally as alarmists and media perpetuate fears of environmental collapse.

It's been telling them the Earth is in imminent danger of environmental collapse, that they live on a planet in peril, that the Copenhagen UN-sponsored climate summit was our last chance to avert disaster.

«Once we stop denying the hard truths about our environmental collapse, we can embark on a journey of transformation that begins with the initial trauma, the «oh sh **» moment, and can end with transcendence.

When sustainable architecture coalesces into something more like art, it will likely be more in keeping with a world teetering on the brink of economic and environmental collapse than with the architectural modes that preceded it.

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