Not exact matches
The exultation of Science is still evident
in modern
society and it has been
fuelled by the condemnation of the validity of miracles and Christian teaching especially by philosophers such as David Hume, who argued: «No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle...», and Richard Dawkins, the atheist evolutionist who promulgates the belief that: «The true utility function of
life, that which is being maximised
in the natural world, is DNA survival.»
If our redescriptions of the world of everyday
life under the sign of the Resurrection have helped to
fuel this desire for goodness and happiness
in this
life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human
society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (
in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end
in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, God.
In addition to biological resources discussed above, the
life of human
society is at present dependent upon non-renewable resources, notably fossil
fuels and minerals.
«We're
in a
society that hyper - values fitness and thinness, and we're taught to be ashamed of feeling like we're not to
living up to expectation,» says Andrew Walen, a psychotherapist specializing
in eating disorders and body image and the founder of The Body Image Therapy Center
in Washington, D.C. Not sticking to a routine can also make you feel out of control, and that too tends to
fuel anxious or depressive thinking, says Walen.
When the light turned green, the tachs turned red; our import companion quickly removed himself from the equation as two American motoring icons reared back on their
live axles and tore after the fast - approaching merge zone
in a shameless display of
society - shattering, testosterone -
fueled misbehavior.
Civil
society, governments and business communities must accept that if we do not change the way we
live on this planet and do something to reduce drastically the carbon footprint and increase dramatically access to renewable energy now through tougher regulations and an overhaul of the fossil
fuel industry (stop subsidizing the polluters and begin funding the human solutions to climate change), the planet will continue to change
in devastating ways.
Rather than do so, we can demand policies that will protect our climate (while also cleaning our air and water, creating jobs, improving our economy, and making our
lives more convenient), or we can sit on our butts and let big fossil
fuel companies control our governmental bodies
in order to maximize their profits (at the expense of
society as a whole).
Until there are
in - kind, same price replacements for the ubiquitous use of fossil
fuel in society this targets the way of
life of everyone.
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Live Penguins to Photographer (Video)
«It's true that we
live in a fossil
fuel dependent
society.
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