Sentences with phrase «human economy»

First, the growing human economy is placing greater and greater stresses on the larger economy of nature.

These so - called invasive species can drive native species to extinction, modify whole ecosystems and impact human economy.

In a recent exhibition at the Chisenhale Gallery, London, he investigated into the relationship between energy and social transformation, in a more extended research into the physical and conceptual power of the sun and the role that it has played in human economy, culture and technology throughout history.

Speaking on behalf of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), a campaign group that lobbies for tougher immigration laws and sterilisation, Sir David said: «I've seen wildlife under mounting pressure and it's not just from human economy or technology but behind every threat is the frightening explosion in human numbers.

The functional integrity and resilience of the ecological processes, ecosystems, and biological diversity that is the basis of all life on earth, respecting which entails a realization of the ecological limits within which human economies and societies must restrict themselves.7

As the impacts of spending beyond one's means mount from the euro zone to the Beltway, they illustrate the irrelevance of well - meaning, high - minded discussions of how human economies are, in the end, subsets of global physical and ecological systems.

Find solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy.

Footprint Futures, a university - level curriculum for exploring the sustainability challenge facing human economies, from Global Footprint Network.

And researchers − including Noah Diffenbaugh, associate professor of earth system science at Stanford University, who is one of the co-authors of the new study − have linked the drought to global climate change resulting from the release of greenhouse gases worldwide as human economies burn ever more fossil fuel.

Transitioning to a world powered by zero - carbon energy sources will require energy technologies that are power dense and capable of scaling to many tens of terawatts to power a growing human economy.

Literally, before the law, everyone sinned or was guilty of sin as a participant in the human economy, or the consequence of sin claimed the innocent's life before they could themselves sin (righteous Abel may be one such example).

Against this it argues for fresh thinking about the economic order, a thinking that locates the human economy in the larger economy of nature.

Indeed, in process perspective, the relation of the human economy to the whole physical system is of primary importance.

Since the human economy is already seriously disturbing the natural world, undifferentiated increase in its size is highly undesirable.

The critical question they ask is, how big can the human economy be relative to the total ecosystem?

But ecologists are sure that the patterns that worked when the human economy was small in relation to the natural world will break down as the relationship changes.

And both human economies and societies are themselves located within and completely dependent upon the non-human world.

«The human economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the economy of nature,» Ehrlich says.

The harvest and trade of these goods represent an important and familiar part of the human economy.

We are seeing a move away from the knowledge economy toward what Dov Seidman calls the human economy.

In the Harvard Business Review, Seidman writes about the shift to a human economy, focused on «hired hearts» and away from the knowledge economy, which held «sheer intellect» in highest regard.

More than 1,300 species of bats roam the planet playing ecological roles that are vital to natural ecosystems and human economies — from pollinating plants and keeping insect populations in check, to making valuable fertilizer (guano) and dispersing seeds.

Public discourse is too often focused upon the growth of the human ECONOMY and not sufficiently on safeguarding Earth's ECOLOGY.

Climate patterns play a fundamental role in shaping natural ecosystems, and the human economies and cultures that depend on them.

Mathis Wackernagel et al., «Tracking the Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy,» Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol.

First, their «preanalytic vision» places the human economy as a totally dependent subset of the Earth system, meaning that the material growth of the human economy is limited.

Finally, waste can also refer to toxics and pollutants released from the human economy that can not in any way be absorbed or broken down by biological processes, such as many types of plastics.

These areas also absorb the waste products from the human economy.

Borgström Hansson, Carina and M. Wackernagel, «Mapping place and accounting space: How to re-embed the human economy» Ecological Economics, May 1999 Vol.29 No. 2, p 203 - 213.

Global Footprint Network is an international think tank that coordinates research, develops methodological standards and provides decision - makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth's ecological limits.

Earth Overshoot Day is hosted and calculated by Global Footprint Network, an international think tank that coordinates research, develops methodological standards and provides decision - makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth's ecological limits.

The Earth System performs the functions («ecosystem services») of providing both the sources of these material and energy inputs to the human economy, as well as the sinks which absorb and process the pollution and waste outputs of the human economy.

All the analyses imply that over the next century the human economy will squeeze most of the carbon out of its system and move, via natural gas, to a hydrogen economy.3 Hydrogen, fortunately, is the immaterial material.

It is the job of the media to get it right and their survival along with that of the rest of our human economy relies on their ability to communicate relevant points.