Sentences with phrase «global civilization»

How much hunger will the world be able to absorb before we have not just failing nations, but a failing global civilization?

Given the enormous environmental and social challenges faced by our early twenty - first century global civilization, one of the questions I hear most frequently is, What can I do?

«Population Bomb» author & Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich on his Royal Society Paper «Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?»

This puts our increasingly interdependent global civilization in a tough bind.

In fact a comparison with other IEA scenarios puts the EIA Reference Case in line with at least 5 degrees C of warming, a level of warming that would likely mean disaster for global civilization.

In place of the oikoumene of a declining Roman Empire, we live in the emerging aikoumene of an interdependent global civilization.

We need a global insight to awaken our consciences; and to cause a metamorphosis in the DNA intrinsic in the epistemological meta - paradigm of the current global civilization.

Is Christianity thus continuing, rather like a leaven in the new global civilization, as many Christians would like to believe?

The economic boons are so profound that you can see their effects from deep space, in the shining networks of nighttime lights that outline our flourishing global civilization.

In this ever burgeoning global civilization, fashion has brought down many boundaries, uniting people in ways that we don't even realize sometimes.

I assume you mean global civilization's and or economic and political collapse and that you have at least a smidgen of hope that humanity might still come to it's senses and and implement radical paradigm change to avoid global ecological collapse.

• If global civilization can not continue to adjust to these climate changes in an evolutionary manner, then revolutionary means (economic depression, famine, mass migration, unilateral seizure of resources, unilateral efforts at geo - engineering) leave us and our descendants vulnerable to perpetual warfare, with ever - increasing chances of unrestrained nuclear exchanges.

This means laying the foundation for a sustainable and equitable global civilization in which the entire Earth community is secure and prosperous.

I think global civilization will take this new data in, and it will increase the urgency of the decarbonization efforts.

The most attention - getting of this work: a paper last year by James Hansen and 18 other scientists that argued the AMOC's collapse could threaten global civilization this century.

Events this summer have shown how little time we have to implement the solutions and build a viable global civilization before we're overwhelmed with the costs of responding to emergencies and contending with an ever - increasing number and proximity of failed states.

The Venus Project is an organization that proposes a feasible plan of action for social change, one that works towards a peaceful and sustainable global civilization.

Sustaining our early twenty - first century global civilization now depends on shifting to a renewable energy - based, reuse / recycle economy with a diversified transport system.

A new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B warns that overpopulation — combined with over-consumption — is threatening to push the entire globe into «a collapse of global civilization.»

But given how many «failed states» there are (Lester Brown has mused for years about how many failed states it takes before you have a failing global civilization), it sounds like a step in a good direction.

I think maybe you could connect up this growing awareness of long time or deep time, in human civilization, with the previously noted increase in our sense of spatial reach, that sense that we are now all part of a single global civilization, the «global village» notion.

If our governments were to adopt the policies advocated by today's spokesmen for Austrian Economics (balancing government budgets, disbanding the central banks, returning to a gold standard), not only would our global economy immediately disintegrate, our entire global civilization might very possibly collapse into a Mad Max world.

They are also the right tools for building a global civilization of peace and prosperity.»

Religion is the single most destructive force in the world and a real threat to global civilization.

By the way people... we are supposed to be evolved, as a global civilization, beyond the race issue.

If it is the case that civilizations are, in their roots, dependent on the quality of religion, and if it is the case that America, by the cunning hand of Providence, has been thrust into the leadership of a global civilization, then we should attend to the question of whether the religion that guides us is genuinely universal.

I take pride in Islam's centuries - long eminence as a global civilization, upholding religious tolerance at a time when it was little known and less practiced elsewhere and fashioning arabesques of unity in diversity out of the races and major denominations of Eurasia and Africa.

The global civilization is called to be that of love.

Finding signs of other cosmic cultures, many SETI researchers believe, would be a way for us to know that it is possible for a global civilization to navigate its unstable technological adolescence.

It not only contributed to global civilization, but was often the source of wars.

What happens when you put the life of the mind and the problems of a global civilization in a jar and shake it?

«These collaborative studies collectively provide a model that can be copied time and time again by chemists interested in producing chemicals known to be free of developmental disruption by the highest standards of contemporary science as a way to advance the sustainability of our global civilization,» Collins said.

The thing that is so scary today is that we have for the first time a global civilization that is doing what many of those did: Building a huge population and abusing its environment without any thought to the consequences.

Although conceived independently and presented as separate solo exhibitions, when taken together two shows at Kai Lin Art through January 30 reveal much about the intellectual and emotional trajectory of global civilization — East, West, and points between.

The essential message is very simple: with four degrees you can kiss goodbye to our global civilization.

When a global civilization trying to support 9 billion people on already failing infrastructure falls, I rather doubt there will be much worth picking up.