Your analysis of the available evidence leads to the belief that AGW is responsible for the majority of warming since 1880 and is likely to be dangerous for
human civilization in the forseeable future.
Research now demonstrates that the continued functioning of the Earth system as it has supported the well - being of
human civilization in recent centuries is at risk.
The solar energy that reaches the Earth's surface in one hour is more than
human civilization in its entirety uses in year.
As anyone who reads your stuff will know,
human civilization in the middle of great changes, with media at the vanguard.
I take it very seriously too: as one of the most dangerous threats to
human civilization in existence, behind the Koran and, perhaps, Mein Kampf.
It is a scarce and limited common good on the global and local scale that has allowed the birth and evolution of many
human civilizations in nearly all corners of the Mother Earth.
But many of these are still new worlds, and like all early
human civilizations in the real world, and in times of advancement or change, we will need ways of understanding and interacting with these worlds in meaningful and generative ways.
Although
human civilizations in recent centuries have brought unprecedented benefits to a large portion of...
Not exact matches
That's why
humans formed tribes, cities, and
civilizations: safety and strength
in numbers.
Other South American
civilizations, like the Incas and the Aztec, practiced ritual
human sacrifice, but archaeologists have never found children's bodies
in such a high concentration before.
If we judge a
civilization's success by its endurance over time, then the Bushmen are the most successful society
in human history.
Around 5,000 years ago,
humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies
in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural
civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.
Most of us instinctively assume that technology relentlessly marches forward, but there have been times before now
in human history — after the Egyptians built the Pyramids, for instance, or after the multiple advances of the Roman Empire — when the
civilizations that followed could no longer do what had been done before, and perhaps there's a complacency and arrogance
in assuming that this won't happen again.
Rather, it is to remind you that the next time you are tempted to buy into something that promises emotional excitement and rapid payoffs, to over-leverage yourself or take more risk than you should; consider, instead, looking to one of the 50 or 100 incredible businesses that are as close to sure long - term bets as anything
in human civilization.
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.
What does the rise and fall of the following
human civilizations have
in common: the Pitcairn Islands, Easter Island, Anaszi of the -LSB-...]
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In order to understand stock performance in the past 200 years, and the next 20 years, we must be able to understand and explain the basic trajectory of human civilizatio
In order to understand stock performance
in the past 200 years, and the next 20 years, we must be able to understand and explain the basic trajectory of human civilizatio
in the past 200 years, and the next 20 years, we must be able to understand and explain the basic trajectory of
human civilization.
That will be necessary to save the Earth, because without being able to expand into space,
human civilization will have to contract, he said at a conference
in Los Angeles
in November.
Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European
civilization as the height of
human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations
in Europe.
It is believed that the Mayas upset the balance between
humans and nature, although the fall of their
civilization probably corresponded to «a network of interaction
in which any difficulty could have had repercussions on the whole» (Fonseca Zamora, 505).
It is true that cultural prejudice and
human sin has at times
in history limited women's place
in ecclesiastical life, and Christian
civilization has made significant strides
in this regard.
The future of
human civilization is
in becoming more truly loving and «
human»
in the sense
in which Jesus Christ has revealed us to ourselves.
Reason consolidates itself
in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more
in terms of greater and more refined techniques and
in terms of greater area of
human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of
human experience not only
in technique and art but
in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting
in a culture which
in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups,
civilizations, etc..
Santa is a lie parents tell their kids to keep them
in line around the holidays, and Jesus is the one «manipulator -
humans» use to keep
civilizations in line.
Hominization is Pere Teilhard's term for what Sir Julian Huxley has called «progressive pyschosocial evolution», i.e. the process whereby mankind's potentialities are more and more fully realized
in the world, and all the forces contained
in the animal world are progressively spiritualized
in human civilization.
He argued that the phenomenon of globalization is bringing new pressures of such magnitude that they could easily result
in disastrous
human conflicts, and that a global war of
civilizations can be avoided only if world leaders accept the multi-civilizational character of global politics, and learn to co-operate.
But it recognized Christ solely
in terms of communion and this is why no other art
in any other
civilization ever caused the sacred to embody so much of the
human and so fully expressed the sacred through the
human.2
It is true that every great discovery
in human civilization is made
in particular circumstances and because of a favorable combination of circumstances.
Man is essentially a social creature, and it is due
in no small measure to this, that
human civilization has evolved, and man has reached the point where he is today.
So soon as the
human race reaches the level of shared appreciation, ordered and agreed convictions as to ends or aims to be sought after and if possible achieved, and a pattern of common life
in which the mutuality and sharing known at the personal level can be broadened
in more or less formal communal patterns, we can speak of the appearance of
civilization.
The belief that man possesses a soul, or some kind of spiritual entity that survives death, is itself an almost universal phenomenon
in primitive
human culture and it has led to different kinds of development
in more mature
human civilizations.
Personally I see more value
in appealing to
human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age
civilizations entrenched
in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.
Although the ancient Yemenite
civilization which found its stimulus
in its favorable climate and trade is no more, the latent
human and natural resources of the country are still there and will come to the fore when they have security from foreign invasion and can introduce modernization and democratic rule.
Where
in Genesis does it tell who created the parallel
civilization of Nod where the first
human baby created by God (who killed the second
human baby) went?
Or maybe
in the 10,000 + years of
human civilization that predates Judeo - Christian thought.
Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge by about 6600 years and places the origins of
human religious experience much farther back
in the historical progress of our
civilization than scholars previously believed possible.
From belief
in idealism or confidence
in material progress to the questioning of pervasive ideologies of conflict, from militarism to pacifism, from empire to anticolonialism, or from multiculturalism to the supposed clash of
civilizations, the Crusades have appeared as witnesses for all parties
in some cosmic lawsuit with
human nature
in the dock.
to devin, at this point of our existence or
civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God
in His will, wanted us
humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.
Many thousands of years ago, ALL people were pagans, do
human civilization naturally has pagan echoes mixed
in with more recent celebrations.
In the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic spher
In the great Western
civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a
human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied
in the cultic spher
in the cultic sphere.
Only the Jewish and Christian God made
human beings free, halts the power of Caesar at the boundaries of the
human soul, and has commissioned
human beings to build
civilizations worthy of the liberty He has endowed
in them.
It is the process of reproducing high
civilization in human personality.
The ancient
human civilizations gradually developed by the conserving and handing on of the knowledge and practices which had proved themselves
in the past.
It also made possible new adventures of the
human spirit, for it was like a great reservoir into which the currents of ancient
civilization flowed, and out of which rose all the streams of later history
in the western world.
Man is
in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call
civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of
human history.
Only slowly did the scientific approach of questioning and testing win wider acceptance, and
in doing so it set
in motion the greatest revolution
in human civilization that there has ever been.
Prior to the rise of the great
civilizations of antiquity, from the fourth millennium before Christ on, rationality played a minor role
in human life.
The possibility that our
civilization and perhaps even the
human race itself might be destroyed
in atomic warfare has but given new intensity to the problem which has always haunted man the creature.3
He devoted profound and penetrating thought to the nature of speech, to the structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function
in the development of
human civilization.
The divine aim to call forth
civilizations whose meanings and purposes are at one with God's purposes - for - them and whose histories accord with the divine activity succeeds, therefore, only where individual
human beings, citizens of those societies, act and believe
in ways transparent to the ways of God.