Sentences with phrase «existential threats»

These are human responses to big existential threats to the biosphere and ultimately Homo sapiens itself, including global warming, natural resource depletion, the 6th mass extinction and the destruction of marine ecosystems.

We use these heights as indicators of committed SLR likely to pose existential threats to the built cultural legacy of each locality as it exists today.

But cost - benefit analysis is ill - equipped to deal with existential threats.

Introduced briefly after a long and vivid discussion of the worst - possible impacts of climate change, climate engineering or geoengineering is positioned as a «moon - shot» technological fix to these existential threats.

However, we need to recognize these are existential threats for many today, and will be for all if things go too far.

This is fine for most science, but not for existential threats.

You can not compare a statement on demographics with one based on collapse theory, regenerative practices, existential threats and on and on.

Given the probability that ice loss leads to existential threats by disrupting the weather patterns we rely on for agriculture — I don't feel odds of 50/50 on being «right» are good enough in this case.

But we are facing existential threats that are unimaginable, as were they.

This solo show explores new existential threats in sharp analytical prints and layered chaotic collage

The story centered around a group of memorable heroes, led by Commander Shepherd, who saved the universe from existential threats.

Moreover, today's problems are trivial compared to the existential threats that have loomed in the past.

This was a necessary response to the existential threats caused by the ever - deepening financial crisis.

There's a history to these characters that is celebrated, one that gives weight to the existential threats posed within.

«Nuclear weapons and climate change are precisely the sort of complex existential threats that can not be properly managed without access to and reliance on expert knowledge,» the scientists wrote in their report.

This is fine for most science, but not for existential threats.

Beyond U.S. shores, the lizardlike amphibians face unprecedented existential threats.

The existential threats could include species extinctions and major threats to human water and food supplies in addition to the health risks posed by exposing over 7 billion people worldwide to deadly heat.

The specter of existential threats is raised to reflect the grave risks to human health and species extinction from warming beyond 5 ° C, which has not been experienced for at least the past 20 million years.

A temperature increase greater than 3 °C (5.4 °F) could lead to what the researchers term «catastrophic» effects, and an increase greater than 5 °C (9 °F) could lead to «unknown» consequences which they describe as beyond catastrophic including potentially existential threats.

«With climate change that can pose existential threats, we have already put them in that plane.»

Early last year, New York State United Teachers and the United Federation of Teachers were facing existential threats from state government and advocates.

We face existential threats to our environment, economy and communities that demand breaking across our usual boundaries.»

But a closer look at the backroom talks on quashing the bill reveal how real - estate groups, when faced with existential threats, can join hands with the most unlikely partners.

«Coming from a country that for many decades suffered existential threats due to water shortages, I hope that Ghana does not find herself facing a water crisis in the future.»

NK uses propaganda to create external existential threats that justify military rule.

Then there are the other existential threats to league, including CTE and the deleterious effects the game has on its players, oversaturation of the product from Thursday night and Sunday morning games created by the league's insatiable hunger for cash, and the changing tastes of audiences and how they consume television.

Mark Steyn calls them» The «COEXIST» Bombers «The only person who might be disappointed is David Sirota who made fame for himself with «Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American: There is a double standard: White terrorists are dealt with as lone wolves, Islamists are existential threats.»

The early results have been mixed but show real promise — and without the same kind of existential threats posed by enhancing embryos.

It's a wonderful thing to live in an era without existential threats to national survival — but, as Walker Percy knew, it's very difficult to see the Acropolis when the only thing that threatens it is air pollution.

I do not believe that existential threats are needed in order for human beings to be persuaded to live a moral, virtuous life.

What can the politics of autonomy» which is the distillation of the politics of the Sixties» say in the face of the existential threats that will confront the next president of the United States and the next Congress: the threat of Jihadism (which has a very clear, and very different, idea of the good society), and the threat of a slow descent, via biotechnology, into the stunted humanity of the brave new world?

The deal is the largest - ever purchase of a U.S. e-commerce startup and a sign Wal - Mart Chief Executive Doug McMillon sees the shift to online shopping and the expansion of Amazon.com Inc. as existential threats to the company's five decades of growth.

The existential threat posed by an unchecked Tea Party became suddenly clear.

But self - learning machines are concerning enough to draw the attention of big thinkers like Musk — he referred to AI as «our biggest existential threat» — as well as Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, with whom Musk co-authored a letter about the technology's dangers.

Musk has in the past referred to A.I. as the «biggest existential threat» to humanity.

Supporters see the Telegram ICO as the blockchain investment of the century and an opportunity to back a product that poses an existential threat to Facebook.

Elon Musk has emerged as a leading voice in speaking out on the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, going so far as to call it the «biggest existential threat» to humanity.

One thing you won't hear him championing is the unfettered rise of artificial intelligence, which he once described as the «biggest existential threat» to humankind.

Most publishers see it as nothing less than an existential threat to their way of life, and they view users who do it as traitors and thieves.

There are quite a few people out there who've said that A.I. is an existential threat: Stephen Hawking, astronomer Royal Martin Rees, who has written a book about it, and they share a common thread, in that: they don't work in A.I. themselves.

There are climate - change deniers, and there climate change debaters, but there is really only one CEO who has made doing something decisive about what many scientist argue is an existential threat the collective mission of his companies.

The resulting model — dubbed the «public cloud» — represented an existential threat to any company selling hardware to large businesses.

To him or her, every problem is unique, they're all huge, and each one presents an existential threat to the business.

That is the existential threat that has rocked hardware makers for the past five years.

The existential threat facing automakers is compounded by investor fears that the automakers» recent boom is as short - lived as today's low interest rates and cheap gas prices.

HPE, Dell, and Lenovo need to sell their gear — and related services — to corporate IT departments; Azure Stack gives them a way to do so while also combating the existential threat most of these companies see in AWS.

It's not the first time that Netflix, No. 379 on this year's Fortune 500 list, has proved an existential threat to the status quo.

There was an interview with Ford CEO Mark Fields on Vox.com in early April regarding the techno - driven existential threat to the auto industry.

I contend there's a similar existential threat about to occur in the recruiting industry.