Sentences with phrase «for human societies»

The speed of the current climate change is faster than most of the past events, making it more difficult for human societies and the natural world to adapt.

That would be like a science fiction movie becoming reality, except perhaps for people who lack the imagination and deductive capacity to fathom what an ice - free Arctic could mean for human societies all around the Northern Hemisphere.

More GHG's would make it even warmer, and at some point that's not good anymore for human societies.

There's an optimal weather band for human societies — around 55 °F — where the largest economies right now.

It will also lower the risk of pushing our planet past a «threshold» that could lead to dramatic, abrupt climate changes with potentially catastrophic impacts for human societies and natural systems.

This issue is relevant to this blog in that any consideration of sustainable paths for human societies on a crowding planet has to account for how we get our food — particularly the meat that, for now at least, remains a centerpiece of diets once people emerge from deep poverty.

The Church's responsibility to God for human societies doubtless varies with its own and the nations» changing positions, but it may be described in a general fashion by reference to the apostolic, the pastoral and the pioneering functions of the Christian community.

And what sort of political arrangements, if any, are best for human societies?

Tribalism was an asset for human societies before globalization, but its persistence now constitutes a threat to the future race, if it prevents the evolution of one global society.

We accept this pattern of human sexuality as a foundation for human society, and we celebrate the healthy relationships of mutual service that embody it» above all, the divinely ordained covenant of marriage between one man and one woman prepared to bear and rear each succeeding generation of children.

In the meantime, wherever Christ's standards of peace and justice are observed to any degree, to that degree the kingdom is anticipated, and to that extent God's ideal for human society is displayed.»

You say our values are in conflict and yet I believe murder to be wrong and bad for human society as is any violence against other humans and I would bet you likely feel the same way.

The Christian hope for human society is that these conditions can be more completely fulfilled, and that within these conditions men will continue to discover and respond to the high possibilities of justice and love.

Like Christianity, secular humanism has many noble aspirations for human society, such as peace, justice and equality.

Thus globalization and the advent of the open society, while bringing great benefit to the individual, can have serious consequences for human society.

This naturally does not mean that Jesus wished to abrogate law for human society, that he as Tolstoi misunderstood him — advocated anarchy.

Because this is the sole ideal that has the solidity once owned by Catholicism and the flexibility that this was never able to have, the only one that can always face the future and does not claim to determine it in any particular and contingent form, the only one that can resist criticism and represent for human society the point around which, in its frequent upheavals, in its continual oscillations, equilibrium is perpetually restored, so that when the question is heard whether liberty will enjoy what is known as the future, the answer must be that it has something better still: it has eternity.29

It matters to God; hence it is meaningful to speak of the way in which, once we have come to the end of our life in this world, something abides — and that something is of enormous importance and gives dignity to our humanity, both for you and me as particular persons and also for human society in its total reality — a society of which each of us is a member, by virtue of our belonging together in what an Old Testament text beautifully calls «a bundle of life».

«Arguably, these cold extremes and warm extremes are the most important factors for human society.»

The boom in squid, octopus and cuttlefish will have interesting consequences both for their own ecosystem and for human society.

That opens up huge new possibilities for human society.

Assignment writing is a standardized and consistent process that beneficial in each case whether it might be used to solve a scientific problem or creating new assets for the human society.

That miserable childhood deprived me of self - esteem, triggered spasms of self pity, paralyzed my emotions, made me cranky, envious and disrespectful of authority, retarded my development, crippled my doings with the opposite sex, kept me from rising in the world and made me unfit, almost, for human society.

«Every single pet that is adopted frees shelter staff up to work with and prepare the next pet for potential adoption,» said Kenny Lamberti, director of strategic engagement and companion animals for the Human Society.

The term «The Law of the Jungle» is also used in a similar context, drawn from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894)-- though in the society of jungle animals portrayed in that book and obviously meant as a metaphor for human society, that phrase referred to an intricate code of laws which Kipling describes in detail, and not at all to a lawless chaos.

The conversation of cannibalism is definitely taboo for a human society, so I'm definitely scared of the idea and I think most people are as well.

We don't know if a bee could really die from overeating, yet the overfed bee here is a fictional fragment and its greedy nature a deliberate attribution by the artist, just as the hardworking bee and its diligent nature may well be an intentional design to set a certain model for the human society.

The challenge for human society will be unprecedented.

Mann is saying more than that we can observe a rise in temperature and attribute it to anthropogenic CO2; like many others, he's saying that there are consequences for other natural processes and for human society.

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But Hansen et al. have laid out a plausible (good enough to pass a very public peer review), if not likely, scenario that would have major consequences for human society.

«Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course... If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future we wish for human society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.»

«We conclude that the 2 °C global warming «guardrail,» affirmed in the Copenhagen Accord, does not provide safety, as such warming would likely yield sea level rise of several metres along with numerous other severely disruptive consequences for human society and ecosystems,» Hansen and his colleagues wrote.

Tribalism is historically the norm for human society and it is not surprising that science would lapse into such a mode over climate science.

The danger then becomes that if the geoengineering effort should ever falter, a century's worth of warming could hit us all at once, far too rapidly for human society and other plant and animal species to adapt.

«What is an extremely powerful message in this report is the need for human society as a whole to start looking at changes in lifestyle and consumption patterns,» Rajendra Pachauri, the panel's chair, said at a press conference today.

The wide, in some cases global scope of effects of climate engineering technologies as well as their deep implications for human society make CE technologies prone to analysis and evaluation by social sciences as well as humanities.

If this shits you... well, petal, just get over yourself: global warming is a profoundly serious problem, and if the likes of you get your way and we don't address it post haste the planet will within decades be committed to a future where down the track it is screwed for human society and for a large chunk of life on Earth.

The reason is that the issue of global climate change is pregnant with far - reaching implications for human society and the kind of world our children will live in decades from now.

A more robust digital society is certainly in the cards for human society, and soon — events like Games for Change do well to explore the possibilities it holds.

-- Prof. Robert Costanza, VC's chair in public policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University «This book has the power to induce policy changes that are imperative for the creation of an equitable, peaceful, and sustainable future for human society.»

It is important for human society to now focus on removal of these barriers, for which the first step would be to create awareness on the scientific realities of climate change.

This chapter grapples with «the obligation that the existence of children entails for every human society» (Hannah Arendt, «The Crisis in Education,» in Between Past and Future [New York: Penguin Books, 1968], 185.)

Not exact matches

While only 18 percent of U.S. organizations offer paid parental leave, according to the Society for Human Resource Management's 2016 Employee Benefits Survey, many high profile employers have begun announcing plans that both increase the amount of paid time off for new parents and offer it regardless of gender.

A 2006 study by the Society for Human Resource Management found that «as many as 40 % of workers have had an office romance.

«I love reading fantasy novels for their creative insights into alternative ways in which human societies and even interpersonal interactions can be structured.

First, the encouraging news: A record 86 % of U.S. employees say they are satisfied in their current jobs, the highest percentage since 2004, reports the Society for Human Resource Management.

Only 21 per cent of employers offer a paid maternity benefit beyond that disability leave, according to a recent survey from the Society for Human Resource Management.

Generally speaking, «it's not a super common benefit,» said Evren Esen, director of survey programs at the Society for Human Resource Management.

«You don't have to be Bill Gates or Michael Jordan to get a signing bonus anymore,» observes Barry Lawrence, a spokesperson for the Society for Human Resource Management, in Alexandria, Va. «You could be a butcher or hairstylist.»