Sentences with phrase «human progress without»
I'm sending this exchange to a number of other people working on the question of how to propel an energy quest that fosters human progress without overheating the planet — from Marty Hoffert to Joe Romm — and will follow up as further reactions come in.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
And scientifically, since what characterizes the development of the animal species from its beginning is the struggle for life, how can we expect, mere humans that we are, to escape from this essential biological condition without which there can be neither growth nor progress?
When Dorothee Sölle wrote in 1971 of the indivisible salvation of the whole world, she and her readers assumed without reflection that the whole world is the world of human beings.1 But as the seventies progressed and the environmental crisis forced itself on public attention, more and more Christians became troubled about the separation of humanity from the rest of nature.
Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»
It's sad they define the world we live in... Think about how much further we would progress as a HUMAN civilization without this simple minded thinking and beliefs getting in our way.
We would not as humans, have made the progress we have in the modern world, without new thinking, new ideas and innovation.
These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.
But Neandertals were as close as one can get to a counterfactual experiment: they had hundreds of thousands of years to themselves in Europe without our interference and showed nothing like the technological and cultural progress of the modern humans who displaced them.
«Liver cancer is on the rise worldwide, and in human studies we've now seen that patients can progress from fatty liver disease to liver cancer without any middle steps such as cirrhosis,» says David Moore, a professor of molecular and cellular biology, who led the study with Associate Professor Loning Fu, both at Baylor.
I feel now, as I did then, that it is our responsibility as engages citizens to expect now - President Barack Obama to live up to the promises that made him an appealing candidate... As Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmngham Jail reminds us, «Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes from the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.»
Without powerful methods for analyzing longitudinal data, for addressing questions about change and duration, we couldn't monitor, map, and assess human progress.
Without prompt treatment, in humans and dogs this bacterial infection can progress to extensive joint damage, deadly cardiac complications, kidney failure, and neurologic dysfunction.
With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.
In her reasons, the judge wrote that she has «no doubt that the right to a climate system capable of sustainable human life is fundamental to a free and ordered society,» and that «a stable climate system is quite literally the foundation of society without which there would be neither civilization nor progress.»
A beast born of the same kind of arrogance that leads folks to assume that human progress can be prioritized without any regard to its dependence on the natural world around us.
In short, without concerted action the progress made in the past 50 years in addressing global poverty and increasing human welfare in the world's poorest countries is likely to be lost, «irrecoverable in the foreseeable future.»
The existing pay equity system is a complaints - based model administered by the Canadian Human Rights Commission without a progress reporting requirement.
Yet how fast the «informal meetings of experts» progress to a more substantive process depends on how swiftly governments develop and articulate their national policy on these weapons that would select and attack targets without further human intervention.