Sentences with phrase «future than our planet»

If binary asteroids can form single craters, then Earth is more likely to be hit by a pair of objects in future than our planet's crater record would suggest.

If binary asteroids can form single craters, then Earth is more likely to hit by a binary impact in future than our planet's crater record would suggest.

Not exact matches

I've always looked for ways to reduce my environmental footprint and as a new mom, it's more important to me than ever to ensure a healthy planet for future generations,» she explains.

It had two films gross more than $ 200 million domestically (X-Men: Days of Future Past and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), while How to Train Your Dragon 2 brought in $ 172 million.

They don't, perhaps, because so many miss the point that they would rather become the complacent that surrounded Noah and assume that so long as there are rainbows we are safe, rather than act for the future to protect what is most precious on this planet, our current Garden of Eden.

Short - term profits for American corporations have far higher priority than the future condition of the planet.

It is rather ironic that we can forecast the far distant future of this planet more clearly than we can foresee the immediate human future on its surface.

Finally, employers are investing in their future work force by supporting breastfeeding; some studies have indicated that breastfed babies have potentially higher IQ's and better academic accomplishments than bottle - fed babies.Because of the far - reaching positive ecological, health, and social impact breastfeeding can make on our planet, it is imperative for anyone interested in protecting our children and our environment to do whatever possible to support, protect, and promote breastfeeding.

Whereas the idealistic Baker perceived that the future well - being planet might be more important than mere party politics, Huhne wasn't going to have the Tories muscling in on traditional Lib Dem territory.

Stars with more than that amount of dust make poor targets for future exoplanet imaging missions, as planets would be difficult to see through the haze.

And in the future, a technique called optical interferometry, which links together the observations of more than one telescope, might make it possible to see the multiple lensed images produced by the planets of another star system.

The co-authors suggest that future studies looking to find and study possibly habitable planets around short - term binary stars should focus on those with longer orbital periods than about 7.5 days.

Most robotic missions to Mars have failed, but future astronauts headed for the Red Planet will have more than an imagined martian jinx to worry about.

Future astronauts headed for the Red Planet will have more than an imagined martian jinx to worry about: deep space radiation.

Of particular interest to the researchers is a projection from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that future temperatures on the planet will rise faster at high altitudes than they will at sea level.

Future exoplanet missions like NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and European Space Agency's CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) and PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO - 2.0) missions will bring in even more data than Kepler and help us fill out the ranks of small habitable zone planets.

Lower than the total gross of nominees «Guardians of the Galaxy», «Captain America: The Winter Soldier», «The Lego Movie», «Maleficent», «The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies», «X-Men: Days of Future Past», «Big Hero 6» and «Dawn of the Planet of the Apes».

Story details on it are scarce other than comments from him that it's set on another planet in the distant future.

The third film in the updated Apes series depicts an all - out war between humans and a species of intelligent, vocal apes for the future of the planet, and is deeper and darker than the two films that preceded it.

Aaron Benavot, director of the GEM report, added: «If we want a greener planet, and sustainable futures for all, we must ask more from our education systems than just a transfer of knowledge.

In this realization, advancing global citizen's movement to shepherd the transition to a sustainable, equitable, and democratic future, one in which ethics is both a right and a responsibility — at the level of the individual, the community and the planet has become more important than ever.

«If we want a greener planet, and sustainable futures for all, we must ask more from our education systems than just a transfer of knowledge.

What astounded me more than anything was that these young people had not only imagined future worlds, but imbued them with the conundrums of our modern planet; pollution, greed, climate - change, the disturbing dark potential of Ai and genetic modification.

Yours can hardly be achieved sooner than many decades in the future, while I'm talking about a relatively more sustainable society, using advanced technology and ecologically «smart» social structures in order to minimize the damage to the planet in the meantime.

Now we are a smart species and our agriculture science and production has substantially reduced famine on our planet and has given us more time than most species have before these population reductions occur (although global climate shift and higher energy costs are wildcards in food production and availability in the future).

Let's hope the single issue of CO2 doesn't obscure the very serious threats that do more than just promise to rise coastal sea levels, which by the way, would be changing as they have throughout the long history of the planet anyway; a presumed future history that our technological civilization hopes to experience for some time to come.

Interestingly, the models that best simulate the recent past of these energy exchanges between the planet and its surroundings tend to project greater - than - average warming in the future.

Its «Future Earth» hall explains that «the planet is changing at a faster rate than anything that's been recorded through the geological record, other than a catastrophic event, like the meteor that took out dinosaurs,» said Martin.

Because we believe that civilization is going somewhere, and that if the future isn't better than the past, then we're just wasting our time on this planet.»

«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.»

In the future all of us in the West today will be held responsible for the colossal damage that we are now doing to the planet, but these two men will deserve a greater part of the blame than any other individuals.

She seems to have no concern for anything (such as the future of the planet with climate change damage or the huge environmental and health problems caused by the coal industry) other than getting her way;

What greater crime can there be than to dishonestly support coal and disparage renewables at the cost of severe damage to the planet and the quality of life of all future generations?

More than that, they are the means by which we map the current and future effect of climate change on the planet — and thus on ourselves.

The Trump Administration's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is selfish and shortsighted and sends a very clear message: the profits of the fossil fuel industry and the multimillion dollar bonuses afforded to their chief executives matter more than humanity's shared future on the planet.

Lowering the planet's temperature with sulphate aerosols could cost less than $ 10bn a year, but would leave future generations with a double catastrophe

In 2017, EARTHx welcomed more than 100,000 attendees as it continues to grow as the hub for education, innovation and relationship - building not just within the environmental community, but beyond, as we all have a stake in the future of our planet.

Renewable energy (which includes solar, wind, water, hydro, tidal and wave, geothermal, ocean thermal, ocean currents, biomass, biofuel) can produce electricity more than enough to power our current and future lifestyle, without polluting the planet and causing global warming.

And your spin offs onto other planets are so far into the future as to be little more than a wishlist.

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We would leave future generations a far more desolate planet than the one that we were blessed to inherit.

It is interesting to see how, in the debate about the future of the planet, it is children that have lost their lives that carry greater weight than the discussion about what those lives could have been.

Read more here for details and references to the science that should govern policies that protect, rather than condemn, the future of humanity and other species on the planet.

Children across the world can join the LEGO Planet Crew on LEGO.com (www.lego.com/planetcrew/), where they can learn through play about important environmental and social issues, and share their views on the responsibility issues they feel most passionate about.LEGO Life, the Group's social media platform (https://www.lego.com/life), which has more than one million users, is hosting a series of challenges during June and July to encourage children to build their vision of a sustainable future using LEGO bricks.

That study also found that these minor «climate wiggles» could, in the future, cause the planet to warm up faster than anticipated.

Your task is no less than to help us safeguard the future of our planet and I hope we will all be equal to that task.

No one knows exactly what the future holds, and kids need to be prepared to live on a planet that could be very different than the one we inhabit.

In conclusion (for now), the authors recognized you needed a function that grows faster than linear in order to properly capture the trend from 1850 — 2000, but then decide the future temperatures of the planet will no longer have such a quadratic trend and instead merely have a linear trend.

Looking ahead at the accelerating energy demands of the future, no single clean technology — not wind, not solar, not nuclear power — can meet the future energy needs of more than seven billion people living on our planet.

You'd have to wonder why the Turnbull Government is doing all it can to discredit the renewable energy industry and the federal Labor Party's modest emission reduction aims other than to undemocratically support the coal industry against the needs of the future of the planet.