Sentences with phrase «how human civilization»

He frequently travels to some of the most remote regions of the planet to explore how human civilization and the natural landscape are inextricably linked.

Freeze, Memory will present three different bodies of Charrière's work together for the first time, each exploring how human civilization and the natural landscape are inextricably linked.

Not exact matches

Not so with Belloc, who was far from alone among historians of his generation who understood the significance of race and blood in the episodes of the human past and how important these factors were in the creation of societies and civilizations.

For you, there is nothing that god nor the bible could say that would be immoral, no matter how ruinous it would be for human civilization.

What of the Yugabdha sanatan Hindu Calendar that says its the year 1986772928 And human civilization began 6,000 years ago, how do you explain sites like Cueva de La Pasiega that contain cave painting dating back tens of thousands of years?

How can a civilization that fails to make provision for the next generation» or even to bring about the next generation at all» hope to give a compelling account of itself before a world of competing visions of the human future?

It is hard to tell how much of the present skepticism about the worth of our human civilization has come as a result of revealing experience and how much has come as a result of published thought on the subject.

In the revealing interview, Weigel shares his preferred Bible translation (RSV), how he begins a project (extensive outlining), and the key to his prolific productivity (mid-day naps — «I think naps are a great invention; perhaps Italy's greatest contribution to human civilization.»).

It's sad they define the world we live in... Think about how much further we would progress as a HUMAN civilization without this simple minded thinking and beliefs getting in our way.

Given how easily the Spanish conquered the Aztecs, such an alien civilization would not only seem God - like but could prove catastrophic for us if its members did contain those human emotions.

How do we really know there weren't previous industrial civilizations on Earth that rose and fell long before human beings appeared?

He studies the interactions between humans and parasites during evolution, as well as parasites in past civilizations and how they have affected human health.

The work may give clues to how such cooperation — the foundation of human civilization — evolved in humans.

«Given how brief the Civilization phase is, it includes much of relevance to real sociology, such as the division of labor, public opinion, and the fact that religious movements exploit unresolved human dissatisfactions.

Geographer Jared Diamond's Collapse (Penguin Group, 2005) demonstrates how natural and human - caused environmental catastrophes led to the collapse of civilizations.

How do we really know there weren't previous civilizations on our planet that rose and fell long before humans appeared?

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

The assumption of many is that an external force (the humans for the apes and vice versa) will be the death knell of a civilization, but here we see how that very fear of «the other» sows seeds of suspicion within the society that are ultimately its undoing.

The parts about civilization rising from the ruins of an atomic war; the parts about misplaced hope and how unlikely alliances can sometimes speak to the human tendency towards faith and the possibility of eternity.

How do you convincingly dismiss most of civilization's beliefs in the hereafter and still arrive at fresh optimism about the meaning of our all - too - human existence?

Isaac Asimov's work focuses on how technology will affect human civilization.

To understand how this transformation occurred, take a brief trip back into the history of the Middle East, where it all began.Go back to the origins of humankind, where two rivers formed the Fertile Crescent and civilization sprouted.Watch the Abrahamic Religions bud in the Levant along the eastern Mediterranean Sea and develop into Judaism and Christianity.Witness the steady march of empires hold sway over Middle Eastern trade, resources, religion and culture for millennia.Visit the sacred cities whose connections to holy people and events sparked bitter conflict.Start your study of the birthplace of human civilization today with History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.Scroll up to get your copy now.

But all I dare talk about here is art for that is my job, my life, my mission - to tell you how important art is and always will be - to civilization and to humans.

Branzi's theoretical approach, as well as his designs, expose the links between seemingly opposing concepts of nature vs. technology, landscape vs. architecture, wilderness vs. civilization, derived from a longtime fascination with how humans interact with each other and with their physical surroundings, especially in urban centers.

Drawing on the theory of technological singularity — which holds that invention of artificial superintelligence will prompt uncontrollable technological growth, resulting in unimaginable changes to human civilization — the artist explores how art can respond or adapt to such change.

Therefore, IMHO, it would be closer to the truth to call WUWT a «skeptic» site that calls into question exactly how much the mean temperature has increased since the advent of the thermometer record in the late 1880's, how much of that is due to human activities and how much to natural cycles not under our control, what dangers rising temperatures may pose to human life and civilization, and what technologically and politically doable actions may be taken to reduce human - caused warming, and our dependence on foreign sources of fossil energy.

In turn, in order to understand modern civilization, we need to look even farther back, at how humans lived before we became «modern and civilized» and what happened to push our species across that threshold.

If the environment is being irreversibly degraded and natural resources are being dissipated recklessly, how can human civilization, life as we know it and the integrity of Earth as a fit for human habitation be maintained much longer?

I suppose it basically comes down to how you value human civilization and life, with respect to how you value biological life in general.

How do we know there weren't previous industrial civilizations on Earth that rose and fell long before human beings appeared?

Seeds of Time is a new documentary that shows us just how important crop diversity, and the work we do to preserve it, is to the future of human civilization.

Nor do we know what the full impacts of warming will be on wider Earth systems, or how adaptable nature and human civilizations may prove to be.

Now that we're all aware of the existence of climate change caused by human civilization, we need to be determining how much we need to do about it.

In Part 1 «Climate makes history ``, the documentary looks at how abrupt climate changes indeed occurred in the past and how they had profound impacts on the development of our civilization, thus dumping cold water on the naïve notion that climate used to be more or less steady before humans began industrialization.