Sentences with phrase «global human predicament»

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Whereas the religious traditions from the Axial Period onwards each arose at one point and then radiated outwards, the global religion (if it comes at all) will probably arise more or less spontaneously out of the common human predicament.

The global culture will evolve, if it evolves at all, out of the spread of global consciousness (as described in Chapter 8)-- a consciousness of the human predicament, an appreciation of humanity's dependence on the earth, and a willingness to act jointly in response.

Before we can determine what new and different to do, perhaps a brief analysis of our current, distinctly human - induced, global predicament is in order.

The point you are trying to make is so vital, so incredibly significant, that I would hope others could be encouraged to set their subjective discomforts aside, to put their ignorance and / or denial of reality aside, and acknowledge the ominously looming, human - driven predicament before humanity, the one apparently induced by the huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of global human over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities now overspreading the surface of the wondrous planetary home upon which God has blessed us to live so well.

If per human overconsumption of scarce resources; unbridled economic globalization overspreading the surface of our planetary home; and the skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers could be occurring synergistically in our time and could have something to do with the distinctly human - driven predicament which looms ominously before humanity, does it make sense to consider, just for a moment, what might to done to set limits on these overgrown human activities?

Our predicament can only be redressed by reconnecting human development and global sustainability, moving away from the false dichotomy that places them in opposition.

Because their elders refused to acknowledge the best available scientific evidence of human population dynamics and, therewith, adequately «diagnose» the distinctly human - induced global predicament all of us face now, the children will not know what hit them, why it is happening, and what is required of them so as not to commit the same mistakes made by the elders.

The negative manifestations of these interactions are often referred to as «the human predicament» [10], and determining how to prevent it from generating a global collapse is perhaps the foremost challenge confronting humanity.

How, now, can Galileo possibly find peace when so many top - rank scientists refuse to speak out clearly, loudly and often regarding whatsoever they believe to be true about the distinctly human - induced, global predicament presented to the family of humanity in our time by certain unbridled «overgrowth» activities of the human species from which global challenges visibly issue now and loom ominously on the far horizon?