Sentences with phrase «human generations»

From such degradation future human generations will undoubtedly suffer, as are present generations.

We will learn more, as we continue to observe other species across multiple human generations.

Individual and collective human truths constantly change and die as human generations come and go.

These kinds of problems sometimes take human generations to become apparent, but hopefully it won't be too late for the given breed and its specimens.

Or at least it won't for many centuries, as the long - lived nature of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means that its effects will be felt for many human generations, absent efforts to curb emissions or use carbon capture technologies to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere, a controversial prospect.

In a world where no child has been born for thirty years, where the current human generation expects that after their deaths all knowledge, art, and achievement will be lost ¯ well, population control looks like a cruel joke, and pregnancy is no longer a burden inflicted on women but a longed - for miracle.

On top of that, I like to point out that, amortized over the years, the investment in a tortoise is actually rather minimal, given its potential to live spanning several human generations.

The overall risk of severe outcomes stemming from climate change increases over time as greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise, with the potential to affect multiple human generations across the full spectrum of cultural and geographic boundaries (IPCC 2014).

Or at least it won't for many centuries, as the long - lived nature of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means that its effects will be felt for many human generations, absent efforts to curb emissions or use

But does the current human generation have the right to conclude, consciously or through inaction, that they are disposable?

Acknowledging in a new paper that both the likelihood and timing of such a planetary «state shift» were uncertain, the scientists nonetheless described warning signs that it could arrive within a few human generations, if not sooner.

«That ordering of known phenomena which we call the world,» writes Buber, «is, indeed, the composite work of a thousand human generations.»

Thus, the family may be a source not only of human generation but also of regeneration, in which the usual gain - seeking attitudes are replaced by ones of self - forgetful dedication and joyful responsibility.

When this notion of disposition is applied to human generation it leads to the conclusion that the material element of the human being that is given by the parents in procreation must be ready to receive a rational soul before it can actually receive it.

«All human generations proceed from this union.

Murdered by poachers and robbed of their habitats, these ferocious animals could be gone from the wild within eight human generations.

For a disease that has languished in a kind of political never - never land for at least one human generation, leaving millions profoundly disabled, that is significant progress.

Revolution is a fundamental change and it can not be denied by the human generation.

Is it good enough (from the standpoint of future human generations) to preserve the bears mainly in zoos (as in this Wildlife Conservation Society video clip)?

The photos are engaging, the poems flavored with some of the mythological meanings that many human generations have layered onto the Pacific coast landscape and its inhabitants.

If both technologies will co-exist over the next couple of human generations, are there potential synergies that could increase the utility of both technologies to society?

LONDON, 22 October, 2016 — Between 1986 and 2014 — one human generation — the glaciers of Bolivia shrank by 43 %, according to new research.

Warm air rises, yet four satellite groups measuring TLT average to no warming at all for a human generation.

A mere handful of human generations will destroy an ecosystem that has existed since the Ice Age unless we can develop lifelong commitments to atone for the sins of our parents.

«In the Middle East, for example,» warned Alwash, «the Critically Endangered sociable lapwing, Vanellus gregarius, could become extinct within a human generation due to persecution and habitat loss.»

«The recent pace of [Arctic] sea ice loss has been nothing short of breathtaking, as about 80 % of the volume has disappeared in a human generation,» said Jennifer Francis (Rutgers University) in an overview for the December issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS).

But even if it doubled, it would still take 5000 years (250 human generations) to reach your worts case scenario.

This is roughly one human generation from today.