Sentences with phrase «for global civilization»

In fact a comparison with other IEA scenarios puts the EIA Reference Case in line with at least 5 degrees C of warming, a level of warming that would likely mean disaster for global civilization.

Additionally, Andrea is a dedicated health leader on the Board of Directors for the acclaimed Center for Integral Wisdom, an activist think - tank dedicated to partnering with leading thinkers and change agents to formulate and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization.

Finding signs of other cosmic cultures, many SETI researchers believe, would be a way for us to know that it is possible for a global civilization to navigate its unstable technological adolescence.

See also Fox, Matthew and Swimme, Brian, Manifesto for a Global Civilization (Santa Fe, New Mexico: 1982).

Not exact matches

Elon Musk, founder and CEO, SpaceX and Tesla — Referencing Musk's mission to build conditions for a viable colony on Mars, Yuri Milner, founder of DST Global, says Musk «is one of the few people not only thinking about the survival of our civilization but also doing something about it.»

They are also the right tools for building a global civilization of peace and prosperity.»

«Actually Marx already predicted that there could be a kind of socialism which combined socialist principles with the achievements of Western capitalist civilizations but he didn't say how this kind of socialism would work since there was no evidence available during his lifetime,» Su Wei, a professor at a party school for ideological training in Chongqing, in southwestern China, told the Global Times.

For better or worse, Anglo - American civilization and its values will set the terms for global development and confliFor better or worse, Anglo - American civilization and its values will set the terms for global development and conflifor global development and conflict.

The second harbinger of possible mortality for Western civilization and culture has been the dramatic shift in the past few decades in the relative global power and influence of that culture.

as for global climate change — that happens anyhow — even in the absence of industrialized civilization.

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In «The Fusion of Civilizations: The Case for Global Optimism» (Foreign Affairs, May / June 2016), Kishore Mahbubani and Lawrence Summers champion «pragmatic problem - solving» in a «stable and sustainable rules - based order,» undergirded by a scientific, technological, and economic consensus that encourages a «fusion of civilizations.»

In «The Fusion of Civilizations: The Case for Global Optimism» (Foreign Affairs, May / June 2016), Kishore Mahbubani and Lawrence Summers champion «pragmatic problem - solving» in a «stable and sustainable rule - based order,» undergirded by a scientific, technological, and economic consensus that encourages a «fusion of civilizations.»

In an opinion piece for Yale e360, he and Anne Ehrlich write: «Many human societies have collapsed under the weight of overpopulation and environmental neglect, but today the civilization in peril is global.

«It is ironic that high concentrations of molecules with high global warming potential (GWP), the worst - case scenario for Earth's climate, is the optimal scenario for detecting an alien civilization, as GWP increases with stronger infrared absorption and longer atmospheric lifetime,» say the authors.

Let us count the ways — for its intellectual and physical daring, its spinoff technology that has advanced civilization generally (we wouldn't have the internet without NASA)-- but perhaps chief among them is that no matter who you are in the world or how you feel about the United States, NASA earns global respect for its technological achievement and drive towards progress and efficiency.

The thing that is so scary today is that we have for the first time a global civilization that is doing what many of those did: Building a huge population and abusing its environment without any thought to the consequences.

Warming of 1 °C relative to 1880 — 1920 keeps global temperature close to the Holocene range, but warming of 2 °C, to at least the Eemian level, could cause major dislocations for civilization.

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While I have come to recognize the value of such schools for some students, parents, and teachers, I continue to subscribe to the ideal of a humanistic liberal arts education that is highly prescriptive and, while global in scope, grounded in the intellectual, aesthetic, and moral traditions of western civilization.

At the same time «an international dimension and a global perspective in education at all levels and in all its forms; understanding and respect for all peoples, their cultures, civilizations, values and ways of life, including domestic ethnic cultures and cultures of other nations; awareness of the increasing global interdependence between peoples and nations «(16) should be the objectives of education.

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For example, you might write about the cultural background, the historical importance of Indian civilizations, and the contribution to the political life of the global community.

Known for her extensive projects examining the intersections of modern civilization, geology, industry, and the natural environment, in Nexus the artist investigates the crossroads of the petrochemical and industrial cargo trade, and alludes to the expansion of global markets and the intensification of fossil fuel consumption worldwide.

Anselm Kiefer has created a body of work that broke the silence surrounding the German past in the Third Reich, while also finding a poignant language for articulating the global intertwinement of human civilization.

But given how many «failed states» there are (Lester Brown has mused for years about how many failed states it takes before you have a failing global civilization), it sounds like a step in a good direction.

I am not assuming — there is overwhelming evidence (from copious data, much of which can be found on or linked to from this web site) that global temperatures are rising at a rate that may soon seriously disrupt human civilization, and that the best explanation for the cause of that projection (based on even more data) is human - driven, rising atmospheric CO2 levels.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

On the one hand, we have Vinod Gupta (# 61) saying, ``... no human solution to global warming is possible for the industrial man and industrial civilization is ultimately doomed.»

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.

BPL: Our entire global agriculture and civilization grew up when Ts was 287 or 288 K for something like 10,000 years.

The «Civilization» games have had global warming built into them for over ten years.

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»

Then came a talk on Energy, Complexity and Human Survival by Thomas Homer - Dixon of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation and Balsillie School of International Affairs, who studies global risk, governance and change and is the author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization and «Environment, Scarcity, and Violence ``:

Some hold glitzy, international symposiums that put humanity on a mock trial for the global imprint of its civilization.

It was much more likely than not, the panel announced, that our civilization was headed for severe global warming.

A new study confirms that carbon pollution has ended the era of the stable climate conditions that enabled the development of modern civilization High levels of carbon pollution have caused global temperatures to rise above the slow - changing, relatively stable conditions that existed «when humans were figuring out where the climate — and rivers and sea levels — were most suited for living and farming.»

The thing that is so scary today is that we have for the first time a global civilization that is doing what many of those did: Building a huge population and abusing its environment without any thought to the consequences.

It will be difficult for people to face the truth when their reputations, careers, government grants or hopes for social change depend on global warming, but the fate of civilization may be at stake,» he added.

There are those who set up and reinforced the fossil - fuel - dependent industrial base of our civilization who were and are responsible but can not be said, because of their lack of awareness of global warming and the continued dominance of fossil energy up to the present to be ethically responsible for global warming.

The prospect for cheap and abundant energies, improved environments and a peaceful and prosperous global civilization this century.

(See for example, Brown, 2010a) This is so because climate change must be understood as a civilization challenging ethical and moral problem and the failure to acknowledge and act on this has been responsible for an inadequate global response to climate change's immense threat during the twenty years of international negotiations that have sought to reach agreement on a global solution.

Warming of 1 °C relative to 1880 — 1920 keeps global temperature close to the Holocene range, but warming of 2 °C, to at least the Eemian level, could cause major dislocations for civilization.

In fact there is no evidence that the US press understands the policy significance for the US if climate change is understood as a civilization challenging global distributive justice problem.

They often want government to intervene to avoid what they claim is a horrible catastrophe for modern civilization in the making — which never seems to happen (consider, for example, how badly their predictions of future global warming have worked out).

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China has become more assertive about climate leadership, with President Xi Jinping pledging last year to make the country the «torch - bearer in the global endeavor for ecological civilization.»