Sentences with phrase «human civilization on»

«This is a test of human civilization on the planet,» Merkley said.

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.

Do you really want to bet the future of human civilization on a single study of a single proxy — especially when there is a whole helluva lot of science out there that suggests the situation is a whole lot more grave even than that portrayed in the IPCC summaries?

Will human civilization on Earth be imperiled, or enhanced, by our own world - changing technologies?

The premise of the show centered around human civilization on distant planets being wiped out by machines known as Cylons.

«Establishing a self - sustaining second human civilization on Mars» is, in his view, «the most important goal.

If that is the case, intelligent life may have but one remaining option: Send a nanobot through the wormhole to regenerate human civilization on the other side.

Not exact matches

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.

James Corden is pretty excited about the latest news from the stargazing business magnate Elon Musk, whose sights are set on taking human civilization to Mars.

Such conversions are likely to grow more frequent as self - described «lovers of death» such as ISIS force the French to explain and defend a civilization firmly based, for all its inconsistencies, excesses, and aberrations, on the reverent love of human life demanded by the doctrine of the Incarnation.

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).

Robert Heilbroner's An Inquiry into the Human Prospect (Norton, 1974) is representative of a certain somber mood that emerges when people reflect on the chances for our culture to overcome its myriad difficulties of population growth, of natural resource and environmental limitations, and of what Heilbroner refers to as the perplexing inability of our civilization to satisfy the human spHuman Prospect (Norton, 1974) is representative of a certain somber mood that emerges when people reflect on the chances for our culture to overcome its myriad difficulties of population growth, of natural resource and environmental limitations, and of what Heilbroner refers to as the perplexing inability of our civilization to satisfy the human sphuman spirit.

For educational purposes and for the health of civilization we require a new accent on values that transcend human wants.

The ancient human civilizations gradually developed by the conserving and handing on of the knowledge and practices which had proved themselves in the past.

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.

Awakening to the fact that human activity overall was on a collision course with the capacity of the Earth to support human civilization was a terrible jolt.

He observed «everything Benedict XVI said does not... change the fact that... the deviation of Western civilization from human values is on the verge of destroying it, and that Islamic civilization is about to re-emerge — to the benefit of the whole of humanity.

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.

Who cares if the Roman Empire was indeed the «pinnacle of civilization» at that time, there were other humans living in other regions on every continent.

Arbitrary and unpredictable «stop - gap» intervention on the part of God would destroy the continuity which is needed in science, technology, and human cooperation in civilization.

It is great because human societies, in the form of nations and of civilizations, have become very powerful and seem to hold in their hands both the blessings and the curses that are to be visited on men.

It refers to the sequence of specifically human and social events that have taken place on the earth, especially since the birth of civilization.

The claim to absolute knowledge, the appeal to a form of universalism that should inform civilization that is not based on empirical indexes alone, and the regulation of human sexuality that religious traditions promote make religion seem a threat to modern liberal society.

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

Agree that we have now reached dead - end, that the dictatorships have the democracies on the run because democracy is essentially unworkable, that Christian goodwill is all fantasy and fustian, and that a nuclear war will soon finish off civilization and perhaps the human race.

Though an ancient evil, it began to receive intellectual defense more recently than most evils, for it was only a century ago that Count Gobineau published in French his four - volume Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, in which he contended that color of skin determines mental and spiritual differences, and that mixture of blood produces degeneracy and the fall of civilizations.

That is, I believe, bad philosophy — and incompatible with the basic principles of our civilization and polity; but at least it does not rely on denying basic facts known to anyone who has taken the trouble to acquaint himself or herself with modern human embryology and developmental biology.

But, as Pope Paul said on his visit to India in 1964, Christians also have «the duty of knowing better» the hundreds of millions of fellow human beings who are Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, or followers of other faiths, «recognizing all the good they possess, not only in their history and civilization, but also in the heritage of moral and religious values which they possess and preserve.

Our civilization's moral code was founded on Judaeo - Christian revelation, which in turn gave rise to a rational conviction that every human person is made in the image of God.

To think an angle spoke to only 1 man on G - d's behalf throughout some 5 - 8K yrs of human civilization and only spoke to this 1 man (who couldn't prove this) and told him to conquer the world using terror and killing is crazy.

The fundamental insight expressed in Totem and Taboo and Moses and Monotheism is not that religion actually began with the brothers of the primal horde cannibalistically consuming their father, but that human civilization rests in part on the fact that men are driven to both express and repress their parricidal inclinations.

In 1982, Robert Mondavi calls on his fellow vintners for the creation of a consumer education program to promote the role of wine with meals and demonstrate wine's history in the context of human civilization.

Not only do our practices spoil Mother Nature's design for the continuation of the human race, our civilization keeps on mutilating the mother by silencing her, by not helping her heal, and when breastfeeding, which could help her heal, doesn't work as expected, that too is taken away from her.

According to him, «The fulcrum of human civilization is based on two things: the maintenance of law and order and secondly the upholding of justice and truth.

The White House approved a report that found the earth is experiencing the warmest period in the history of civilization and humans are to blame, despite the fact that it directly contradicts much of the Trump administration's position on climate change.

Even in the deepest, darkest, most inaccessible location on the planet, the impact of human civilization is still evident on the ocean floor.

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

Although the source of the attraction of the Galápagos, both for Darwin and for tourists today, is the paucity of civilization that has allowed it to evade human influence, Ecuadoran law says that to visit the uninhabited islands you have to be on a tour in the company of a «naturalist.»

«Just what's on the near - Earth asteroids can support the rest of human civilization for the lifetime of the sun.

Human civilizations have existed on the Yucatan Peninsula for millennia, relying on the freshwater in caves below the limestone crust where Tom Iliffe does his work.

The bones of dogs, pigs, and humans are shedding light on the rise of civilization in China.

When plate tectonics has completely rearranged the continents, when all the present landforms on the earth have been ground down, when civilization has been profoundly transformed and when human beings may have evolved into some other kind of organism, these plaques will still exist.

Scientists put the Silurian hypothesis to the test, to see if humans were the first major civilization on Earth.

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

Artifacts of human or other industrial civilizations are unlikely to be found on a planet's surface after about 4 million years, wrote Frank and study co-author Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

This raises the possibility that industrial civilizations might have been around long before human ones ever existed — not just around other stars, but even on Earth itself.

In contrast, complex life has existed on Earth's surface for only about 400 million years, and humans have developed industrial civilizations in only the past 300 years.

Indeed, humans have relied on plant - and animal - sourced materials since the dawn of civilization.

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.