Sentences with phrase «facing humankind»

We are talking about the greatest material challenge facing humankind.

At the official launch at Imperial College London the League called for a step change in sustainable living, arguing that truly transformational strategies would be needed to overcome the climate crisis and the many other pressing issues facing humankind today.

The document also suggest ensuring food security in the face of climate change is among the most daunting challenges facing humankind.

Yesterday, I examined some of the reasons that the most difficult challenge currently facing humankind has been all but entirely ignored by the presidential candidates.

To bring together students from the three schools to develop sustainable solutions to the problems facing humankind, Dr. Cumberbatch founded the Center for Sustainable Engineering, Art and Architecture — Materials, Manufacturing and Minimalism (SEA2M3) in 2005.

The first meditation practice deals with some of the serious problems facing humankind right now.

The report of the Commission on Creating a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future highlights infectious diseases as one of the biggest risks facing humankind and estimates the annual expected cost from potential pandemics at more than # 40bn.

My own conviction is that the historic religious traditions have greater wisdom and more capacity to deal with the deepest issues facing humankind than do the newer ways.

At the same time as the focus of much interfaith activity has become more practical, those in positions of leadership in the political and economic spheres are both recognizing the importance of religion in shaping the modern world and acknowledging that there is a spiritual and ethical dimension to the major problems facing humankind.

It is encouraging, therefore, that increasingly people of different faiths are beginning to address together the urgent issues that face humankind.

Not exact matches

«Open or closed, forward or backward, humankind is facing new major choices,» he said, in a veiled swipe at Trump's protectionist «America first» policy.

If the union between man and woman has strayed further and further from legal forms, and if homosexual unions are perceived more and more as enjoying the same standing as marriage, then we are truly facing a dissolution of the image of humankind bearing consequences that can only be extremely grave.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

But first he raised a thankful face to heaven, to the One who sends rain to water the earth so that it might be fruitful and feed humankind.

I no longer believe in organized religion and actually believe it's one of the most divisive things humankind faces.

For the society is facing not only a new age of information, but also a new technological era which brings with it a challenge to all of the historical religions, and which can lead either to humankind «s next integrative steps toward new religious insights and meaning, or to a collapse of religious development and the emergence of a period of anarchy and despair.

Once a few people get hold of it, it spreads like wildfire, changing the face of the world and becoming the most important movement in the history of humankind.

«We're lucky climate change didn't happen sooner: Naturally occurring carbon dioxide concentrations gave humankind time to face up to fossil fuels» impact.»

Had these concentrations been even slightly lower, the effects of the emission of harmful greenhouse gases would have been felt much earlier, at a time when humankind was not yet ready or knowledgeable enough to face up to mitigation efforts.

«The discovery of arrow poisons was a significant evolutionary step for humankind, yet we are facing the last opportunity to document arrow - poison use in southern African hunter - gatherer societies.»

NASA is striving towards a long - term goal of putting humankind on Mars, and exposure to cosmic radiation is one of the key health issues to be faced by astronauts during any potential interplanetary mission.

This sci - fi epic envisions a future world that has fallen into anarchy on the heels of an infertility defect in the population that has made humankind face the likelihood of its own extinction.

It's a harrowing Holocaust tale, but one that speaks to humankind's capacity to endure, to fight on in the face of terrible cruelty.

Humankind faces multiple and daunting crises that are more than likely to confront and impact billions of people in the decades to come.

It is clear that humankind is moving through dramatic relational changes, as well as facing dire political, economic and environmental challenges to our existence.

Climate change is the single biggest problem that humankind has ever had to face, as we continue with lifestyles that are way beyond the planet's limits.

The faces and scenes we meet through Sebastiao Salgado's lens are haunting: Indian coffee growers, Vietnamese boatpoeple, forgotten landscapes and the impact of globalisation on humankind.

Growing social inequality, ever growing corruption, eco destruction, climate heating ect ect, it's all in that article, the capitalists face the abyss easily just like I do:) BUT: The article closes with the statement, that there is no alternative to capitalism - surprise, surprise:) Humankind survived 100s of thousands of years without any private property, without capitalism, the forests, the water, the land was owned by nobody, all vital goods for survival had been shared within the community.

Without some new kinds of policies and human - driven action, humankind could soon come face to face with daunting, human - caused challenges, over which human beings appear to have at least a modicum of control because the increase of conspicious per capita consumption, seemingly endless production, and skyrocketing propagation by the human species has evidently brought certain global challenges into being.

Sadly, even after the large - scale extinction that humankind (and many other life forms) face, those who are left to continue the gene pool will not necessarily be those who are globally - or ecologically - aware.

Both papers come to the same broad conclusion, summarized in our figure, that unless humankind puts on the brakes very quickly and aggressively (i.e. global reductions of 80 % by 2050), we face a high probability of driving climate beyond a 2 °C threshold taken by both studies as a «danger limit».

«Polar Cities» dubbed «Noah's Arks» for Humankind in Face of Global Warming and Methane Worst Scenario

If we accept the possibility of even moderate projections for climate change and honestly face the scale of the effort humankind must undertake to avert catastrophe, this single problem jumps to the top of any rational list of global priorities.

And if you still leave the lights on when you're done, make sure they're shining in the shamed faces of the PR pros who are still trying to prevent sound, sensible policy change to affect this, perhaps the biggest threat humankind has ever faced.

«Stop me if you've heard this before, but the other day the Rev. Al Gore declared that «climate change» was «the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced.»

«What we do next,» he said, «will determine whether we are actually able to address one of the most complex challenges humankind has ever faced.»

Green jobs hold the promise that humankind will be able to face up to the following two defining challenges of the twenty ‑ first century: climate change and decent work.

VOICEOVER (excerpt from climate change advertisement): This is the biggest threat humankind has ever faced.

Sir Richard said humankind must realize the scale of the crisis it is facing.

Are you saying that Religious have never before been concerned about climatic / environmental / economic issues / impacts faced by humankind before AGW?