Sentences with phrase «global civilization now»

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.

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Now, civilization is at a crossroads, Grinspoon says: If global warming and other Earth - altering phenomena continue unchecked, humanity could die out.

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.»

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.

The answer is that virtually all of us are now convinced that global warming poses a clear and present danger to civilization («Climate Change,» 2010).

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»

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.

The answer is that virtually all of us are now convinced that global warming poses a clear and present danger to civilization.»

«One problem facing humanity is now so urgent that, unless it is resolved in the next two decades, it will destroy our global civilization: the climate crisis.»

Considering the severe challenges posed to the global climate system, to species, and to human civilizations by rampant carbon emissions now in excess of 11 gigatons each year (nearly 50 gigatons CO2e each year), the new and increased availability of solar energy couldn't come soon enough.

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Let me put it this way: do you believe there is dangerous man - made global warming happening right now, that we have to alter Western industrial civilization to correct, by reducing CO2 emissions below 350 ppm?

Taken in the context of steadily worsening climate news, a reasonable person might conclude that all the ice in Antarctica — enough to raise global sea levels 200 feet and paralyze human civilization — may now be vulnerable to melt by the time our grandchildren retire.

Preparing to live through the global climate change now bearing down on our civilization will be an enormous undertaking.

So long as we live under this corporate capitalist system we have little choice but to go along in this destruction, to keep pouring on the gas instead of slamming on the brakes, and that the only alternative — impossible as this may seem right now — is to overthrow this global economic system and all of the governments of the 1 % that prop it up and replace them with a global economic democracy, a radical bottom - up political democracy, an eco-socialist civilization.

«The weight of our civilization has become so great, it now ranks as a global force and a significant wild card in the human future along with the Ice Ages and other vicissitudes of a volatile and changeable planetary system» — Dianne Dumanoski, Rethinking Environmentalism

Now that our industrial civilization has truly gone global, humanity's collective activity is laying down a variety of traces that will be detectable by scientists 100 million years in the future.

This is enough to restore my faith in civilization (recently battered, here): You can now get free access to an independent and nonprofit global legal database, according to Bill Heinze.