Sentences with phrase «global human catastrophe»

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As I have tried to show in this book, unless we humans are strongly motivated to become a global society, we are likely in the imminent future to suffer horrendous catastrophes which will be of our own making.

I would not for a minute wish to deny that we are too often motivated by an obsessive desire for power and control, and dominated by a narrow and calculating rationality which can not even acknowledge the deeper values of human life and experience, and that such attitudes may contribute to the coming of one form or another of global catastrophe.

While we await the definitive documentary about the glut of garbage, Waste Land reduces this global catastrophe to touchingly human scale.

I do think that we humans are needlessly speeding things along, but do not think that even if we get the global mean temperature increase below 2 degrees that we can not or will not have widespread droughts and potential world catastrophes in terms of both weather and climate.

The fact that Christy and Pielke Sr. are scientists allows their skeptical positions on rapid GHG driven global warming to be even harder to deal with when I attempt to inform people that rapid GHG driven global warming is happening and that humans need to act quickly to reduce GHG emissions in order to delay and to reduce the catastrophe that lies ahead due to global warming.

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Then came a talk on Energy, Complexity and Human Survival by Thomas Homer - Dixon of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation and Balsillie School of International Affairs, who studies global risk, governance and change and is the author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization and «Environment, Scarcity, and Violence ``:

Even though human civilisation is threatened by grave environmental crises and global warming and many people are scared of impending catastrophe, Resurgence's vision is not driven by doom and gloom; rather it is inspired and motivated by love of nature, respect for the earth, reverence for all life and a fair «deal» to all people, believing that the power of love is greater than the force of fear and despair.

Gore's thesis is fourfold: (1) Global Warming is real, (2) Global Warming is a potential catastrophe to human civilization, (3) we CAN do something about it if we act both quickly and responsibly and (4) we are all in this together; it is not (or should not be) a political debate.

Scientists and experts skeptical that human activity will cause a climate catastrophe have filed briefs with the court, likely disputing claims from cities and oil companies about global warming.

Humans stand accused of having set off a global climate catastrophe by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Rather, the alarmists are still trying to convince an increasingly skeptical public that human production of carbon dioxide will soon lead to runaway global warming and climate catastrophe.

The CFR's Levi was also a lead voice in the «extreme weather» catastrophe choir claiming that the deaths and damage from Tropical Storm Sandy could be laid at the feet of human - caused global warming.

These technological fixes won't solve the problem of humans causing climate change, could give us an excuse to avoid reducing carbon emissions, and could lead to a global catastrophe.

The Dilbert cartoon begins with a climate scientist saying «human activity is warming the earth and will lead to a global catastrophe.»

As the Diagnosis team says, every year we delay action drives us closer to a tipping point beyond which lies a global environmental catastrophe unimagined in the human age.

Together with other anthropogenic changes in the Earth system that may herald the emergence of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene (9, 10), the global changes caused by human use of land are generally portrayed as the result of an unchecked and accelerating process that is mostly recent in origin (11) and therefore presents an impending catastrophe for humanity, the biosphere, and the Earth system in general (3, 12).

According to the report's preface, signed by Fred Palmer, «the evidence does not show that the increase in CO2 levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.»

«[T'he evidence does not show that the increase in CO2 levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.»

Gavin Schmidt can parse his words and insist on his «interpretation» as much as he wishes but his meaning is absolutely clear — despite his «uncertainty» post made after «climategate» had outed him: that global warming is happening, that this is caused, in the main, by human made GHGs, that, if mankind does not halt these GHGs, catastrophe will follow and that this is «settled science» and the «consensus».

In short, anthropogenic climate change embrittles the resiliency of an already stressed global environment, thereby increasing the risk of catastrophe for humans and other species.

Oliver Tickell, for instance, writes that a global warming causing a 4C temperature increase by the end of the century would be a «catastrophe» and the beginning of the «extinction» of the human race.

They have firmly linked glacial loss to global warming driven by profligate human fossil fuel combustion and they have warned that such loss risks social change and potential catastrophe for millions.