"Human civilization" refers to the development and organization of societies by humans, where people live together, establish laws, create technologies, and build various cultural systems to function as a collective group.
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These seem just the sort of healthy, well - adjusted people to leave the future
of human civilization in the hands of.
All the while, you explore the ruins of
human civilization in search of clues about what caused the apocalypse.
Thus it seeks a fair way of dividing up the effort — on both the mitigation and adaptation sides — needed to establish
human civilization on a new path.
The only «cure» for climate change will be in attempting to restore the stable climate in
which human civilization developed.
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.
The best way to answer this question is to figure out what evidence we'd leave behind
if human civilization collapsed at its current stage of development.
And it might just be enough to bring the 10,000 - year climate optimum that has
allowed human civilization to flourish to come crashing to an end.
Whether we are able to
sustain human civilization depends on not only our numbers, but also the rate at which we consume the earth's resources and create waste.
These are lines we can not cross if we want to hold on to a
functioning human civilization — not a collection of failed states, desperate environmental refugees and collapsing food systems.
In the first case, persons can become «outsiders» as a consequence of political circumstances beyond their control, but remain members of a
single human civilization.
A look at the possible future of
human civilization based upon current scientific projections about climate, politics, economics, energy, and society.
The danger of climate change
for human civilization and possibly the human species comes not from ice or heat.
Second, CO2 levels exceeding 350 ppm are creating a planet warmer than humans have ever lived in and are disrupting the physical and biological systems in
which human civilization has developed.
The adult internet dating has influenced many aspects of
modern human civilization, especially in global trade and transmission.
The consensus regarding the catastrophic global warming hypothesis is completely reliant on a proposed positive feedback producing runaway global warming that will
destroy human civilization.
And that might mean the climate is too sensitive to tolerate current levels of CO2 without changing the conditions that have
allowed human civilization to flourish in the past 10,000 years.
Human civilization developed over a period of 10,000 years during which global average surface temperatures remained remarkably stable, hovering within one degree Celsius of where they are today.
For most of the history
of human civilization, it has provided a basis for trust between people and governments, and between individuals through exchange.
Finally, the discovery and use of fossil fuels enabled humans to escape the backbreaking manual work that characterized
earlier human civilization by allowing the development of modern economies with all the conveniences that energy use makes possible in high income countries.
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