Sentences with phrase «extinction of all of humanity»

Words are important, and I was precisely clear I was stalking about extinction of all of humanity, not some limited sub groups, or animal species (all of which is quite horrendous enough).
But none of those sources appear to claim climate change could cause extinction of all of humanity as in «all» of humanity.

Not exact matches

Build a self - sustaining colony of one million people on the Red Planet, thereby giving humanity a chance to survive an «extinction event» back here on Earth.
He then reduces Jesus» death and resurrection to «a major evolutionary step [note the indefinite article] in the moral achievement of humanity»... «saving his fellow humans from extinction, their evolutionary fate, to share in the life of the Trinity».
Applied to the individual the idea of total extinction may not at first sight appall us; but extended to humanity as a whole it revolts and sickens us.
One also wonders what Weil, in her concern for suffering humanity, would have made of today's great extinction of the nations through infertility.
The job of saving humanity from extinction currently falls to no one.
These assessments, based on reviews of the scientific literature, will answer questions about how much biodiversity is declining and what the implications of extinctions and ecosystem change might be for humanity.
If most of us expect to live possibly indefinitely in good health, there is a strong motivation to help protect humanity from long - term risks like extinction from a new pandemic, the exhaustion of key nonrenewable resources, global nuclear warfare — or a meteor strike.
«Humanity has committed itself to saving species from extinction, but until now we have not had a good idea of even how many there are,» says coauthor Boris Worm, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie.
In the latter, double - crossing agents of an elite organization use time travel to save humanity from extinction over and over, inhabiting a loopy timescape where it is possible to murder oneself and live to tell the tale.
This misconception has been used for over a century to absolve humanity from causing the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and explain how billions of birds disappeared so quickly.
It is widely documented that the nature of humanity's impact on Earth has reduced many wildlife populations to a precarious state and caused some complete extinctions.
The CO2 content of the oceans decrease, pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere, depriving plants of their food source, causing agriculture to fail, and the dreams of the humanity - is - a-cancer-on-the-face-of-the-planet types comes true: the extinction of human life, and much animal life with it.
Even the military couldn't stop the zombies, and now humanity stands on the brink of extinction.
As the extinction of humanity was not far from reality, the Slayers opened their villages as sanctuaries, to protect those who escaped, and provided a last line of defence against the horror.
Humanity has been driven to the brink of extinction on a colonised planet ruled by dragons.
Screen adaptation of Max Brooks» apocalyptic novel about a globetrotting, United Nations investigator (Brad Pitt) who rises to the occasion in the face of a zombie pandemic that's toppling governments and threatening humanity with extinction.
Controlling a group of human explorers, you and your team are charged with the responsibility of leading humanity into battle against a new and growing threat that could lead to the extinction of the dwindling human race.
The beasts have pushed humanity to the brink of extinction, and you are part of humanity's last hope.
The game tells the story of humanity's own extinction, ultimately leading up to the rise of these mechanical dinosaurs.
Demon's Souls is an action role - playing game that pits you against the forces of The Old One as you fight to save humanity from extinction.
Set in 2057, Sunshine follows the flight of Icarus II, a massive, shielded space ship sent to revive our dying sun and prevent the extinction of earth and humanity.
Set in a future where a failing Earth puts humanity on the brink of extinction, it sees an intrepid team of NASA scientists, engineers and pilots attempt to find a new habitable planet, via interstellar travel.
And Lena begins to understand the true alien nature of what is happening, and if the world will recover from what is happening remains to be seen, and the possibility of humanity's extinction.
Extinction revolves around the concept of hundred - foot - tall ogres known as Ravenii waging a war on humanity, smashing into their cities and killing everything in sight.
Daybreakers (R for profanity, graphic violence and brief nudity) post-apocalyptic, sci - fi thriller, set in 2019, revolving around a research scientist's (Ethan Hawke) attempt to save humanity from extinction after a plague turns 95 % of people on the planet into bloodthirsty vampires.
In this sublimely intricate and compulsively readable tour de force of Dickensian bravura and genre - blending splendor, Harkaway tells the tale of a mild - mannered London clockmaker faced with saving humanity from extinction.
In the face of an enemy completely immune to conventional weapons, urban civilization collapses, and each day humanity is driven further and further toward extinction.
From the bestselling author that brought you the award - winning Extinction Cycle series, comes an all new vision of the apocalypse and the future of humanity.
An extinction - level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.
Facing extinction, humanity becomes desperate to flush earth of the mysterious Tiberium crystal that's depleting the planet of its life.
The story picks up four years after the conclusion of Resistance 2, humanity is near extinction and Joe has been vilified and discharged from the army for killing the hero Hale, and the new protagonist is doing his best to live in peace with his family and other survivors.
Join the ranks of an elite force of monster fighting God Eaters, take up arms with all - powerful God Arc weapons, and join friends to slay gigantic monstrosities threatening to bring about humanity's extinction.
Although the ending of the game answered pretty much all the questions we might have had about Aloy's past and the events that led humanity close to extinction, that didn't stop Guerilla Games from giving fans more of this amazing world with The Frozen Wilds expansion.
As humanity teeters on the verge of extinction Alice takes on one last mission to return to Raccoon City to steal a cure to the T - virus that could end the Zombie Apocalypse.
Even the military couldn't stop the zombies, and now humanity stands on the brink of extinction.
The player creates and evolves their own custom plague and your ultimate goal is the extinction of humanity on Earth.
It's pretty much your standard «humanity is on the verge of extinction by a new and dangerous species» plot.
As the extinction of humanity was not far from reality, the Slayers opened their villages as sanctuaries, to protect those who escaped, and provided a last line of defence against the horror.
SOMA takes place in an underwater research facility that became a stronghold for the remnants of humanity after an extinction event.
Sci - fi fans will also enjoy the backdrop to the action, which is a millennium - spanning saga which encompasses global civil war, an ages old alien threat and humanity in need of salvation as it teeters on the edge of extinction.
Eight years ago, a league of hardcore, gun - slinging heroes recovered humanity from the brink of extinction.
Choosing one of three races — which vary only in appearance but not skill or ability — you learn that humanity has been driven to the brink of extinction.
The extinction crisis that is underway, precipitated by humanity, is at least equal to global warming in its potential to destabilize the biosphere — to make the planet less habitable to us and many of our fellow species.
Actually at this time the extinction of humanity would be a great boon to the biosphere, but I think we'll improve.
This guy from The New York Times, if he really thinks that humanity is destroying the planet, humanity is destroying the climate, that human beings in their natural existence are going to cause the extinction of life on Earth — Andrew Revkin.
While I am unconvinced by the arguments that a loss of biodiversity threatens humanity — largely because the available empirical evidence suggests otherwise — I believe that species extinctions impoverish the world in which we live, and support efforts to protect biodiversity, so long as they are suitably protective -LSB-...]
Unfortunately, for people who care about the future of humanity and the vast variety of species were are dragging to extinction [PDF] through the climate crisis, profit is the key factor for fossil fuel barons and their influence peddlers.
I'd say it'd be more apocalyptic (as per Dr. Venkman's «dogs and cats, living together» dictum) if the animals were migrating to environments * more * likely to result in their extinction;) Having said that, I acknowledge that a common view is that humanity is doing exactly that — not a physical migration, but an enforced anthropogenic man - handling of the entire biosphere towards a bad neighborhood in Earth's «state space», where we risk being stabbed by shadowy tipping points, mugged by run - away processes and distressed at the sight of an anoxic ocean vomiting over the local fauna.
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