Sentences with phrase «global civilization in»

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

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«Actually Marx already predicted that there could be a kind of socialism which combined socialist principles with the achievements of Western capitalist civilizations but he didn't say how this kind of socialism would work since there was no evidence available during his lifetime,» Su Wei, a professor at a party school for ideological training in Chongqing, in southwestern China, told the Global Times.

First released in 1991, the computer game allows players to build a civilization from a single settler into a global empire.

He argued that the phenomenon of globalization is bringing new pressures of such magnitude that they could easily result in disastrous human conflicts, and that a global war of civilizations can be avoided only if world leaders accept the multi-civilizational character of global politics, and learn to co-operate.

According to Havel «Only a new spiritual vision - cosmic in its dimensions and global in scope - can rescue civilization.»

The second harbinger of possible mortality for Western civilization and culture has been the dramatic shift in the past few decades in the relative global power and influence of that culture.

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.

Although these visions led to two great multiethnic civilizations — Christendom and the Islamic world — neither of these has succeeded in becoming the new global society, partly because each encountered within itself a continual resurgence of pre-Axial ethnic tribalism, and partly because each developed an intolerant exclusiveness which turned it into another closed society, this time of a religious kind.

as for global climate change — that happens anyhow — even in the absence of industrialized civilization.

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

The rise of global consciousness can be a positive value in the forward march of humanity towards a more just and integrated civilization.

In «The Fusion of Civilizations: The Case for Global Optimism» (Foreign Affairs, May / June 2016), Kishore Mahbubani and Lawrence Summers champion «pragmatic problem - solving» in a «stable and sustainable rules - based order,» undergirded by a scientific, technological, and economic consensus that encourages a «fusion of civilizations.&raquIn «The Fusion of Civilizations: The Case for Global Optimism» (Foreign Affairs, May / June 2016), Kishore Mahbubani and Lawrence Summers champion «pragmatic problem - solving» in a «stable and sustainable rules - based order,» undergirded by a scientific, technological, and economic consensus that encourages a «fusion of civilizations.&raquin a «stable and sustainable rules - based order,» undergirded by a scientific, technological, and economic consensus that encourages a «fusion of civilizations.»

The world has been in religion - cultural turmoil during the last two centuries, as the Western civilization has encroached into, penetrated, destroyed and dominated non-Western religions, cultures and civilizations on a global scale.

He proposes instead that the central demand of our time is to use the technology that is now on the horizon to transform nature in ways that enhance the global structures of a «graceful, cosmopolitan civilization able to serve the whole of humanity.»

It has differentiated itself from grand macrotheoretical formulations concerned with value orientations, the comparison of whole civilizations, or global assertions about dominant themes in modernity such as universalism, pragmatism, and the like.

In «The Fusion of Civilizations: The Case for Global Optimism» (Foreign Affairs, May / June 2016), Kishore Mahbubani and Lawrence Summers champion «pragmatic problem - solving» in a «stable and sustainable rule - based order,» undergirded by a scientific, technological, and economic consensus that encourages a «fusion of civilizations.&raquIn «The Fusion of Civilizations: The Case for Global Optimism» (Foreign Affairs, May / June 2016), Kishore Mahbubani and Lawrence Summers champion «pragmatic problem - solving» in a «stable and sustainable rule - based order,» undergirded by a scientific, technological, and economic consensus that encourages a «fusion of civilizations.&raquin a «stable and sustainable rule - based order,» undergirded by a scientific, technological, and economic consensus that encourages a «fusion of civilizations.»

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 an opinion piece for Yale e360, he and Anne Ehrlich write: «Many human societies have collapsed under the weight of overpopulation and environmental neglect, but today the civilization in peril is globaIn an opinion piece for Yale e360, he and Anne Ehrlich write: «Many human societies have collapsed under the weight of overpopulation and environmental neglect, but today the civilization in peril is globain peril is global.

Let us count the ways — for its intellectual and physical daring, its spinoff technology that has advanced civilization generally (we wouldn't have the internet without NASA)-- but perhaps chief among them is that no matter who you are in the world or how you feel about the United States, NASA earns global respect for its technological achievement and drive towards progress and efficiency.

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«It's very clear our time is running out in terms of our global carbon budget, which is the amount of carbon civilization can put into the atmosphere while hoping to keep climate change under control,» Walsh said, adding that we could use the balance of our carbon budget in the next 40 years.

We conclude that an appropriate target is to keep global temperature within or close to the temperature range in the Holocene, the interglacial period in which civilization developed.

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

The adult internet dating has influenced many aspects of modern human civilization, especially in global trade and transmission.

Set in 2060 AD, this post-apocalyptic adventure unfolds in the relentlessly - grim dystopia left in the wake of the series of global calamities that led to a total breakdown of civilization.

This is challenge that requires deep educational innovations of global willingness that promotes intrinsic reforms from its own ontological nature of the ecology of the intelligence; and become, ultimately, in the genesis of a cognitive democracy: composed by new transcultural and transpolitical symbiosis between the different civilizations that have been formed on the earthly homeland in the last six millenniums.

While I have come to recognize the value of such schools for some students, parents, and teachers, I continue to subscribe to the ideal of a humanistic liberal arts education that is highly prescriptive and, while global in scope, grounded in the intellectual, aesthetic, and moral traditions of western civilization.

At the same time «an international dimension and a global perspective in education at all levels and in all its forms; understanding and respect for all peoples, their cultures, civilizations, values and ways of life, including domestic ethnic cultures and cultures of other nations; awareness of the increasing global interdependence between peoples and nations «(16) should be the objectives of education.

Understanding the true nature of education, universal values of democracy, rights and responsibilities evolved from rich experience of civilizations, philosophers, thinkers and practitioners is invaluable treasure in redefining culturally sensitive global citizenship education from which emerge conscious «global humane beings».

The new approach establishes an entirely new set of universal values, which in turn can create a compassionate civilization - «global humane beings», who with increased critical awareness and committed action transform the lives of others, especially of the deprived sections of the society at the local, national, and international levels.

It is a scarce and limited common good on the global and local scale that has allowed the birth and evolution of many human civilizations in nearly all corners of the Mother Earth.

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.

This new paradigm seeks to change the character of planetary civilization, validating cultural cross-fertilization, economic connectedness, and the rights of communities to meet global responsibilities in diverse ways.

The observer does not belong to any religion, nation or race and as such is a cohesion element that can enable the development of a global society where national, religious or any other identification will be secondary, primarily, however, will be awareness being a member of the «human civilization» in other words be a member of «global society».

Hebrew Public is a growing network of intentionally diverse elementary and middle schools in New York that is reimagining their learning environments by focusing on graduating global citizens, engaging with middle eastern language and civilization, and integrating strong practices from places like Ramapo and International Baccalaureate.

The fear that civilization could collapse in some kind of armageddon has increased in the last 15 years, be it with September 2001, global warming, avian flu scares, and more recently Ebola.

In a world ravaged by global warfare, small pockets of survivors scratch out a meagre existence, living off the remains of a shattered civilization.

Known for her extensive projects examining the intersections of modern civilization, geology, industry, and the natural environment, in Nexus the artist investigates the crossroads of the petrochemical and industrial cargo trade, and alludes to the expansion of global markets and the intensification of fossil fuel consumption worldwide.

Anselm Kiefer has created a body of work that broke the silence surrounding the German past in the Third Reich, while also finding a poignant language for articulating the global intertwinement of human 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.

Even if there were no deniers around, I can't see humanity transforming our entire global civilization from one based on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energy sources — especially not in the required couple of decades.

I've said countless times that peak oil and global warming are imminent and extremely serious problems, and yet people keep assuming that because I'm not predicting the fall of modern civilization in 10 years that I think it's all not that big a deal.

• 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.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

A fair, effective and balanced treaty will put in place the global architecture that will place the world — at long last and in the nick of time — on a path toward solving the climate crisis and securing the future of human civilization.

The greatest game in the history of the computer, Sid Meier's Civilization, has long had a global warming component.

We will now be able to measure and track Sun - induced space weather as well as global climactic trends in ozone levels, aerosols, vegetation, volcanic ash, and Earth reflectivity, all in high resolution; just the kind of data our civilization needs to make informed cultural, political, and scientific decisions that affect our future.

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

Furthermore, given that «global warming» doesn't mean that the whole world is simply going to get warmer (rather, climate changes will be complex), pointing out that civilizations in the past may not have been affected by warming is something of a red herring.

Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»