Sentences with phrase «human beings on this planet today»

I don't know how you can be a human being on this planet today if this growing oppression and poverty is not your central Issue.

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Of the 7.3 billion human beings on Planet Earth today, 89 percent are religious believers, while 1.8 percent are professed atheists and another 9 percent are agnostics: which suggests that Chief Poobah of the New Atheists Richard Dawkins and his friends are not exactly winning the day, although their «market share» is up from 1900.

There are over 7 billion humans on the planet» — I was working within the parameters which you established in your OP» Well, that is how it sometimes feels to be an atheist who does not believe in gods... in a large part of the USA today.»

More human beings are alive today on Planet Earth than the total until 1900, and most of them are living at a level that we can only call sub-human.

Today we are struggling for the survival not only of human civilization, but for survival of life on the planet Earth.

While an increase in population from 6.8 billion today to closer to 10 billion by mid-century will make sustainable living on the planet a challenge, especially since the bulk of that growth will be among those living in poverty who have a moral claim to economic development, the real problem may not be human numbers so much as human behavior.

Moyer: Well, they've created of course an Avatar, digital avatar for Watson which is very IBM - like, there's a planet and the glow and Adam type string is going around it that you'll be able to see and in the taping today he was in the center position between the other two human contestants and where human contestants, you know, everyone writes down their name in cursive on the front of their Jeopardy! platform I guess whatever it is Watson was in center.

Especially with humans living today on this planet such as it is — our immune systems are too weak to withstand overloads anymore.

In fact, studies of the few remaining indigenous cultures on the planet show humans once served as host to significantly more gut bacteria than is found in Westerners today.

Mark Ruffalo is an excellent human for so many reasons, but topping our list today is the fact that he is just as desperate for a role in the new Star Wars films as, well, pretty much everyone else on the planet.

By that time +2 C will already be built into the system and not then showing up as temp readings and that will likely hit by 2075 guesstimate — again that is only if what is the reality of humans on planet earth from the UNFFCC, to govts to business to people living in First World nations in particular — regarding their ongoing delusional inaction on agw / cc issues remains similar as today.

[J] ust as humanity confronted «revolutionary change» (Rerum Novarum) in the19th century at the time of Industrialization, today we have changed the natural environment so much that scientists, using a word coined by our Academy, tend to define our era as the Anthropocene, that is to say, a period of time in which human action is having a decisive impact on the planet due to the use of fossil fuels.

«If we stopped using fossil fuel today, or by 2020 as Al Gore proposes, at least half the human population would perish and there wouldn't be a tree left on the planet with [in] a year, as people struggled to find enough energy to stay alive.»

But sadly, not every child born today will have such good life chances — and our growing human population and its impacts on our planet are making life for everyone more challenging.

Over the same time period, humans have consumed roughly 15 % of ALL the fossil fuel resources that WERE EVER on our planet (based on WEC estimates of inferred possible total fossil fuel resources today and CDIAC estimates of fossil fuel use to date).

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

It is very easy for those of us who live in centrally heated luxury with all mods cons to look at the world through the distorted lens of privilege and to forget that the vast majority of human beings that have ever uttered a breath have lived short brutal wretched lives and there are far too many on the planet today whose prospects are little better.

care about themselves, others, OR their environment either — face it, most humans on this planet aren't worth the chemicals making up their protoplasm, as my train ride today alongside the Great Unwashed as described above will attest.

7 Billion, 9 Billion, or 14 Billion, All Place Great Strain on Planet's Resources From an ecological perspective I have grave doubts that the planet could support that many humans at anything other than the lowest levels of resource consumption — as in what would be considered today abject poPlanet's Resources From an ecological perspective I have grave doubts that the planet could support that many humans at anything other than the lowest levels of resource consumption — as in what would be considered today abject poplanet could support that many humans at anything other than the lowest levels of resource consumption — as in what would be considered today abject poverty.