Sentences with phrase «human economic activity»

But this extraordinarily rich and fragile deep - sea life is under threat from a range of human economic activities.

Earth Formations and the impact of human economic activity on the terrestrial landscape are at the heart Michele Mathison's new exhibition States of Emergence.

Over the last 50 years, climate scientists have built an increasingly clear picture of how the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that arise from human economic activity are changing the Earth's climate.

During all this time, natural ecosystems have developed in co-evolution, but 250 years ago, with the development and industrialization models imposed by the West on the world, anthropogenic action is causing a major ecological and social footprint, hence the urgency to formulate international policies that circumscribe human economic activities within the biophysical limits of Mother Earth.

Unsustainable practices in resource management threaten human economic activity.

Massively expanding human economic activities are placing irresistible pressures on the global commons and, in many contexts, are overwhelming traditional protection and conservation approaches.

Climate change is driven by human activity — chiefly the combustion of fossil fuels and changes in land use — and forests and other natural ecosystems play a powerful role in both soaking up the greenhouse gases released by human economic activity and at the same time sheltering many of the other 10 million or so species that share the planet.

I don't tend to write much about this, but my concern over global warming is based, to a great extent, on the losses in biodiversity that will inevitably result from climate change, even at rates that don't greatly damage human economic activity in general.

The latest research indicates massive quantitative acceleration of human economic activity around 1950, including «an explosive growth of fossil fuel use,» according to environmental - sciences professor James Hansen and co-authors in an article in Science.

that unless we adopt massive political micromanagement of human behavior, and simultaneously stop all free and uncoerced human economic activity, the planet will fry.

The CLOUD experiment could then turn into an embarrassment for the many governments funding CERN, each of which had committed enormous political and economic capital to ameliorating the alleged effects of human economic activity on the climate of our planet.

For the case of climate change, Thagard and Findlay (2011) showed how the mainstream scientific position, namely that GHG emissions from human economic activities are causing the Earth to warm, is coherent and accounts for the available evidence.

Many careful observers believe that human economic activity is already at an unsustainable level in many parts of the world and even globally, as indicated by global warming.

The founder, Adam Smith, had a rather cheerful view of human economic activity, especially in societies in which strong moral foundations guide public behavior and free, competitive markets reward with better profits and higher wages those producers and workers who make good decisions.

Until recently, human economic activities have been more concerned with profit than sustainability.

Soil, vegetation, and natural drainage, wind, and precipitation patterns become extremely important in determining the kind and quality of human economic activity.

The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr Georg Kaser of Innsbruck University, an expert in glaciers and global warming, explains the uncertainty calculation, a scientific tool needed to gather reliable results, and anthropogenic forcing, which is a change in the Earth's energy balance due to human economic activities.