Sentences with phrase «functioning human civilization»
These are lines we can not cross if we want to hold on to a functioning human civilization — not a collection of failed states, desperate environmental refugees and collapsing food systems.
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He devoted profound and penetrating thought to the nature of speech, to the structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development of human civilization.
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that no one had ever devoted more profound and more penetrating thought to the nature of speech, to the structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development of human civilization than the sage of Tegel.
Research now demonstrates that the continued functioning of the Earth system as it has supported the well - being of human civilization in recent centuries is at risk.
It seems to me that the precuationary principle applies to the scientific side of the argument — we know human civilization, with all its complicated infrastructure functions with CO2 in the 280 - 350 ppmv range.