Sentences with phrase «human societies around»

The real problem is that we simply don't have time to address AGW by making changes to fundamental institutions of human cultures, whether those be education, or religion, or government, or economics, or the pathological anthropocentrism that at present pervades them all, and then waiting for a few generations for those changes to transform all the various human societies around the globe into ones that are prepared to fully recognize and deal with the problem.

Gandhi saw clearly how organizing human societies around endless economic growth would promote inequality and conflict within as well as between nations.

Not exact matches

Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

I also think many efforts at sex education — those built merely around disease and pregnancy prevention rather than human dignity — have hurt people and diminished civil society.

Sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists have noticed this «scapegoat mechanism» in various societies and cultures around the world and have attributed it to an evolutionary necessity for the survival of human society.

He had long explored the complexities of human nature in history and society, but in this book he turned the problem around and looked at the subject which was involved, turning from the objective self which most analysts look at to the subjective self behind the object.

Not to teach it, critically examine it and it's impact on human society over the eons will doom us to have it around for another few hundred years.

It does not reflect prevailing patterns of human behavior... If you look around carefully, you will see that most people are not really maximizers, but instead what you might call «satisfiers»: they want to satisfy their needs, and that means being in equilibrium with oneself, with other people, with society and with nature.

Basic human understanding of what is beneficial to the society around us, to the people we encounter... the morality that my beliefs hold me to... all of these things inform my understanding of what is good.

In the film I Am Not a Witch we see how every human society interprets its own beliefs as damage, and routes around them.

Perhaps by demonstrating greater love and care to those around us, particularly those within our own family and especially those who are unwell or marginalised within society; by reaching out to those who are struggling in life, in need of comfort or support — and by valuing them all as human beings — then we can all indeed be true disciples of Christ on earth.

God's covenant with Noah which asks fallen humanity to establish a society based on reverence for life and a legal justice that protects the innocent human beings from the murderer who is around; and God's call to Moses to liberate the Israelite people from Pharaoh's slavery; and God permitting monarchy with new perils of oligarchy to destroy the more human Tribal Federation to liberate the Israelites from the technically superior Philistines in Palestine; and Paul's doctrine that the Roman State, which he knew had its role in crucifying Jesus.

But, in the midst of a gentle rain, while these thoughts prevailed, I was suddenly sensible of such sweet and beneficent society in Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sight and sound around my house, an infinite and unaccountable friendliness all at once, like an atmosphere, sustaining me, as made the fancied advantages of human neighborhood insignificant, and I have never thought of them since.

In the end, it will, we may be sure, reassert itself: but only because of the many human casualties which will emerge as our deeply confused society blunders around, continuing to undermine the stability of the traditional family based on marriage between a man and a woman.

Because this is the sole ideal that has the solidity once owned by Catholicism and the flexibility that this was never able to have, the only one that can always face the future and does not claim to determine it in any particular and contingent form, the only one that can resist criticism and represent for human society the point around which, in its frequent upheavals, in its continual oscillations, equilibrium is perpetually restored, so that when the question is heard whether liberty will enjoy what is known as the future, the answer must be that it has something better still: it has eternity.29

The building of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.

I am asking about the contribution a society built around gaay marriage will make to human kind.

In fact, a published 2010 study by Young and Benyshek did not find any evidence of human maternal placentophagy as a traditional cultural practice among a sample of 179 societies around the globe.

Jo Abbott Bottles and pacifiers have been around for a miniscule part of human existence and only in some societies.

Ethnographic data from societies around the world confirm that mothers in traditional human cultures are in contact with their infants 24 hours a day, carrying them strapped to their bodies by day, sleeping beside them at night [5], and feeding at will.

So, as a human society, where so much of the emphasis has been on preparing and improving the productivity of the workforce, and people's lives center around the labor they contribute to economies, what do you do when you don't NEED everyone to work?

Mr President is in no doubt an internationally respected Nigerian leader with a heart of gold who has worked tirelessly to ensure a better society with his unwavering message of justice, compassion, peace and human dignity which has made him an inspiration to people around the world.»

George Soros, the hedge fund manager and Democratic donor, has moved the bulk of his wealth to Open Society Foundations, which promotes democracy and human rights around the world.

Bill Nye, the CEO of The Planetary Society (and all around awesome human being) muses cleverly about the cosmos, physics, our place in space, and science in general.

In 33 hunter - gatherer societies around the world, parents typically take 1 - to 2 - year - olds on foraging expeditions and give the youngsters toy versions of tools to manipulate, reported psychologist Sheina Lew - Levy of the University of Cambridge and her colleagues in the December Human Nature.

A long - standing debate in the field of cultural evolution has revolved around the question of how and why human societies become more hierarchical.

In a research essay to be published this week in the Entomological Society of America's Journal of Economic Entomology, Robert Owen argues that human activity is a key driver in the spread of pathogens afflicting the European honey bee (Apis mellifera)-- the species primarily responsible for pollination and honey production around the world — and recommends a series of collective actions necessary to stem their spread.

Shermer's article is a shallow and tendentious treatment of a complex subject that does not take proper account of rebuttals to critical attacks on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, in which a comet strike more than 12,000 years ago caused the megafaunal extinction in North America, and misrepresents the state of the argument around my theory that this event wiped out an advanced human society as well.

Once toggled, humans from H. erectus to our own species developed culture and society around the fire's glow.

Disability, Space, and Society Human Rights Issues Embedded Around Us, University of Ireland, Department of Geography, Dan Jacobson (2003)

The paper identifies four major phases when humans shaped the world around them with broad effects on natural ecosystems: global human expansion during the Late Pleistocene; the Neolithic spread of agriculture; the era of humans colonising islands; and the emergence of early urbanised societies and trade.

A new article identifies four major phases when humans shaped the world around them with broad effects on natural ecosystems: global human expansion during the Late Pleistocene; the Neolithic spread of agriculture; the era of humans colonising islands; and the emergence of early urbanised societies and trade.

The Teop people were selected to test Grimalda's theories on human cooperation for the small size of their communities (populations of around 50 inhabitants) and low levels of social complexity, though also because they present very different characteristics to those found in Western societies: they are horticulturists and gatherers; they use rudimentary tools to grow their food; they have no mechanised industry; and retribution for manual labour is infrequent.

Not surprising, yet when it comes down to it, doesn't it make you feel good to know that you are a part of a profession where not only can a discussion around human rights occur, but you are also encouraged to leverage your expertise for the betterment of society?

Ceramics have been around for almost as long as human history, and continue to be part of our society and culture.

Director Yorgos Lanthimos is playing around with the belief that humans only count if they're with someone, that society sees the older single as a bit of a worry, and that any kind of companionship is better than none.

The two threats, economic and environmental, tend to produce a real crisis of humanity that makes becomes an imperative the construction around the world of a new society different from the current that act interdependently with common goals and rational in every country and on a global scale without which it may be put into question the survival of humans and life on Earth.

Civil society organizations — also known as non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-- are critical actors in the advancement of universal values around human rights, the environment, labour standards and anti-corruption.

I think Whitehead was hoping to move us the way Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel moved people of her day, to look around at our society today and recognize the human tragedy that racism is, for blacks and whites alike.

According to the Society for Human Resource Management, around 3 percent of employers currently offer some sort of student loan repayment assistance program and many more employers are planning to add the perk in the coming years.These benefits particularly help millennial borrowers who have been graduating with overwhelming amounts of student loan debt and struggling to pay it off.

According to the Society for Human Resource Management, around 3 percent of employers currently offer some sort of student loan repayment assistance program and many more employers are planning to add the perk in the coming years.

With the overpopulation in shelters around the country and the high numbers of euthanization — 4.5 million pets a year according to the Human Society — adopting a dog is one of the best things you can do to help this problem.

With their permission, we've linked to them below, as well as links to The Human Society and fellow SPCA organizations around the country.

Humane Society International extends the work of The Humane Society of the United States around the globe to promote the human - animal bond, protect street animals, support farm animal welfare, stop wildlife abuse, curtail and eliminate painful animal testing, and confront cruelty to animals in all of its forms.

Although the offspring of a feral mother and never really previously around humans, the kitten quickly got used to being handled, according to Bev Greco, director of the Cumberland County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

But then the writers make a few more terrible jokes, including one scene where Bryce checks out Arcadia's lingerie in her apartment, that start to drag poor Bryce back into the realms of being unlikable, and that leaves me at a bit of an impasse: I could argue that Bryce is perhaps an interesting study on human nature, questioning what someone would actually become after 500 - years of watching friends and family die around them without being able to die themselves, always having to live on the outer fringes of society.

I love that Horizon picks up long after whatever techno - cataclysm caused society to collapse, at a point when humans have forgotten how any of the machines around them work.

Featuring established and emerging international artists from around the globe, the 14th edition of the Sharjah Biennial (SB14), Leaving the Echo Chamber, explores the possibilities and purpose of producing art when history is increasingly fictionalised, when ideas of «society» are invariably displaced, when borders and beliefs are under constant renegotiation and our material culture is under the constant threat of human destruction and climate degradation.

Please join us in the Hinterhaus for a conversation around the effects of advanced robotic technologies on contemporary society and human affective...

This exhibition of new works by Dave McDermott makes use of allegory to examine the complexities of human nature and the societies build around them.