Sentences with phrase «future civilisation»

The least we can do is use the time and resources we have available to us today to come up with genuinely sustainable and smart ways to extract energy from the environment and convert it to useful forms to power a future civilisation.

If some alien or distant - future civilisation set out to study the Earth's geological record, what signs would humans have left in the strata?

Imagine a future civilisation suddenly having to cope with billions of tons of escaping CO2 that was put there by us simply because we wanted a lot of luxury.

The Aged Paintings are painted with acrylic and oil on burlap with almost photorealistic precision, and then aged and patinated, appearing almost as artefacts of our times to a future civilisation.

In doing so, the pair considered what evidence from our own culture would be left behind for future civilisations to uncover after the passage of aeons.

Future civilisations could then use these to build up to their own industrial periods, before collapsing and starting the cycle again.

Having tackled the dilemmas of future civilisations, in galaxies both near and far, Gleeson's own star is rising.

Welcome to what future civilisations may describe as something of a monster week of content.

Not exact matches

- succeeded in stirring up fear and rejection of others, intolerance and hatred through conflicts between civilisations which they cynically allow to be presented as a form of conflict which will dominate the future of the world.

Set it in a dystopian future in which only your hero stands between civilisation and a 1,000 - year reign of terror?

Anyone concerned about the condition of the perennial philosophy, or the future of Christian civilisation, ought to read it.

In a future which will increasingly be characterized by mass migration and the shifting of political borders, the Ocean Model of Civilisation can serve as a constructive paradigm for greater global security — especially its transcultural dimension — by promoting better and more dignified treatment of human beings, tolerance of diversity and respect for differences.

If we are to weather the coming storm of the Tory campaign, backed by hysterical newspaper threats of the «end of civilisation as we know it», then we need to start giving people some hope for their futures.

It's a fascinating thought experiment with implications for the future of our own planet, as well as for alien civilisations.

THE last time London saw a play by award - winning US writer Anne Washburn it was Mr Burns — a journey into a post-apocalyptic future, where the remnants of human civilisation clung to half - remembered fragments of The Simpsons.

And this stasis must be reached humanely, so hopefully there will be a future where children ponder our plastic artefacts and know that their civilisation is better than ours.

Set in the distant future, a mysterious disaster has brought civilisation as we know it to an end.

In this handheld re-imagining, DRAGON QUEST VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past begins when, in their quest to prove their island isn't alone in the world, life - long friends Auster, Prince Kiefer and Maribel find themselves embarking on a journey that will see them travel through time and rescue civilisations long - forgotten in order to save the future.

Set in the distant future where dinosaur - like robots roam the earth and human civilisation has crumbled long ago, you play as Aloy, a tribal hunter trying to make her way in this post-apocalyptic world.

Set far into the future, Mars has undergone colonisation, but that new civilisation has long since collapsed.

The scene is set in the far future, on an Earth reclaimed by nature, where human tribes scrabble for survival in the shadows of vast mountains and the remnants of long - lost civilisation.

Renowned for its permanent collection of antiquities and exhibitions that shed light on bygone civilisations, the British Museum has spent the last eight years quietly acquiring contemporary works in a bid to preserve modern history for future generations.

«Future Fossil Spaces,» as the work is titled, might be an incarnation of just that: the remains of a civilisation overcome by its own greed for more gadgets.

Blurring the boundaries between presence and absence, past and future, nature and civilisation, cyclical movements and inevitable transformations, the exhibition test the viewer's perceptive capacities, and demand that the dichotomy between the subject and the object is set aside.

Can I point out that ultimately we need to build sustainable systems if we are to consider our survival as a civilisation into the future.

In other words, what about human civilisations, and how they impact our future?

By unsustainably exploiting nature's resources, human civilisation has flourished but now risks substantial health effects from the degradation of nature's life support systems in the future.

So any civilisation of the future trying to understand the nature of the universe will be absent a theory of a big bang, inflation, dark flow, dark energy, etc., unless of course it's possible to arrive at such things a priori.

Cold, not warmth hold the real danger for life on Earth and our civilisation in the future.

This from the guy who tosses around endearing terms like idiot, petulant liar, fool, moron, hideously bloated and truculent denialist scumbag, mentally aberrant conservative son of a diseased camel, morally deficient lizard brain, scion of a toad and a slime mould, repugnant eater of children and defiler of mothers, Republican voter, a wart on the rump of the body politic, viewer of Faux News, disgusting purveyor of ideas picked up in the intellectual dung heaps of civilisation, soiler of underpants, bent over superannuated hag of obsolete ideologies, putrid despoiler of humanities past, present and future.

Another emerging response is to accept the possibility that civilisation and perhaps the human species could be wiped out, a future set out in James Lovelock's book The Revenge of Gaia.

I am concerned that people and our collective civilisations also survive whatever may be in our near future.

Climate scientists say that we are facing a climate emergency, and that the future of ecosystems and human civilisation now hang in the balance.

On this astonishing tale, it is no exaggeration to say, could hang in considerable part the future shape of our civilisation.

2009 also saw the release of the film, The Age of Stupid, which claims to be a documentary, but is in fact a fiction set in the future, charting the fall of civilisation as it was torn apart by Gaia's wrath.

«The whole of human civilisation rests on the foundation of healthy Nature — soils, forests, fresh water, oceans... so we have to look at how the financial system creates money and allocates it to activities and projects that destroy the natural world, in the process undercutting its own future.

«There is a general consensus among earth scientists that melting of land ice greatly contributes to sea - level rise (SLR) and that future warming will exacerbate the risks posed to human civilisation,» says the study led by Eric Larour.

But perhaps the best, and most in - depth, analysis of the issue of robots in the law is in a long study entitled Civilisation 2030: The Near Future for Law Firms, produced by London, England - based Jomati Consultants LLP.

In a report last November, Civilisation 2030: The near future for law firms, the consultants look at trends like smartphones and digital memory to predict that the next 15 years will likely result in artificial intelligence being used extensively in the legal industry.

A recent study by Jomati, Civilisation 2030: The Near Future for Law Firms, points out that, after long incubation and experimentation, «technology can suddenly race ahead at astonishing speed».

In this report, «Civilisation 2030: The Near Future for Law Firms» we explore what will be the impact on clients and law firms of three key factors that shape the global economy: demographics, the growth of global cities and megacities, as well as the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics into both the industrial and professional sectors.