Sentences with phrase «finite planetary home»
In a forthcoming post, I will provide my own thoughts on the necessity for reducing the unsustainable increase in absolute global human population numbers as well as on the need for recognizing «OCPF» as the most powerful means of re-establishing the family of humanity as a sustainable species within the biophysical framework of our wondrous, finite planetary home.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
Because the planetary home we inhabit is finite, the Earth's relatively small size and make - up present the family of humanity with limitations to the growth of its population size, its consumption of resources and the expansion of the manmade global economy.
Could things so obvious and straightforward as reality - oriented policymaking and realistic action planning be operationalized in ways that reasonably and sensibly conform to the requirements of practical reality which our relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home imposes uniformly upon its inhabitants........
It is simply this: Earth's body is finite, its resources are limited, and its ecosystem services capable of irreversible degradation by the huge scale and anticipated growth of human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, the ones we see rampantly overspreading the surface of our planetary home in our time.
Unintended, pernicious challenges resulting from unrestrained increase of per capita over-consumption of Earth's finite resources appear to be threatening to ravage our planetary home.
After all, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.
We have good scientific knowledge that our planetary home exists in space - time, is finite, has frangible ecological systems and possesses scarce resources, many of which are being dissipated by you and me, so that our children and coming generations will likely be deprived of them.
It does appear to me we have constructed an endlessly - expanding, leviathan - like global political economy that is on the verge of unsustainability in the the relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home we inhabit.
To believe that unbridled economic globalization can continue to expand much longer, let alone endlessly, in our relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home is both wishful and magical thinking of the first order.
Afterall, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.
The unrestricted consolidation of filthy lucre and political / military power, the unbridled expansion of economic globalization, the unrestrained per - capita overconsumption of limited resources and the unchecked human overpopulation on the relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home God blesses us to inhabit, could soon become unsustainable.