Sentences with phrase «human welfare»

The annual value of human welfare benefits provided by coral reefs.

But ecological theology will insist that our concern for these creatures must not be motivated only by our desire for human welfare.

These resources could have been used to really improve human welfare and the environment.

The dominant effect on human welfare will be via decreased predictability.

Nearly all house call clients are referred by human welfare organizations, whose staffers quickly recognize the benefits to their clients.

Yet we still wonder if more human welfare could not have been achieved by a different deployment of time, technology, and talent.

Its purposes are to advance the science and profession of psychology and promote human welfare while educating the public about psychological issues.

But even in an environmental - impact statement, it is the effect of the proposed activity only upon human welfare which has legal standing.

A cover letter for a midwife position has to be a cut above what the employer expects simply because there is health and human welfare involved.

My point is rather that the justification of bigger and bigger corporations with less and less commitment to any geographical community, even the nation, works against community and true human welfare.

The professional man, however, always has direct human welfare in mind.

I wish that those with technical expertise about economic matters would direct much of their energy to finding how the economy could serve sustainable human welfare.

On the other hand, many of the indicators of human welfare point to considerable improvements in the quality of everyday life.

Human welfare professionals can work to understand a homeless person's relationship with their animal, offer support, and find resolutions that will keep animals with their owners.

I'm attracted to the phrase «sustaining economy»: The economy should really be our instrument for sustaining communities, for sustaining human welfare, and for sustaining our natural environment.

If you have compassion for people in need of human welfare, you don't bet on the less likely scenario.

If this person were actually concerned with human welfare, wouldn't he want to provide strong evidence that his actions would not decrease human life expectancy?

They have been taken over by left wing radicals, who are now trying to control the use of energy, which is drastically decreasing human welfare.

For instance, a cover letter for a midwife position has to be a cut above what the employer expects simply because there is health and human welfare involved.

Technological reason does not so much ignore human welfare as come at it indirectly.

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.»

Finally, they end up with the oddest claim in the submission: That because human welfare has increased over the twentieth century at a time when CO2 was increasing, this somehow implies that no amount of CO2 increases can ever cause a danger to human society.

Michael wrote: ««If you restrict CO2, you restrict human welfare» may not be a totally correct hypothesis, but it is an idea that absolutely does belong in the debate.»

That's why we're proud to partner with the Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV) in support of their national animal - human welfare movement called Mutual Rescue aimed at challenging the world to re-imagine how our lives can be transformed when we adopt a homeless pet.

Ethicists should work for policies that enhance human welfare in general and for an economy that enhances economic welfare.

In what sense might a geoengineered world be better than one of unabated climate change — by reducing economic damages, increasing overall human welfare, distributing harms and benefits more justly?

improve human welfare through important additional environmental and health benefits thanks to reduced air pollution.

Fortunately, population growth in the world appears to be slowing faster than anyone forecasted, largely through voluntarily measures (with the exception of a few states like China), while simultaneously improving human welfare around the world.

And by partnering with human welfare agencies, even small organizations can provide those resources, says Mandi Wyman, executive director of the Carver - Scott Humane Society (CSHS), a foster - based rescue in Chaska, Minnesota.

(Gomez et al. 1994, Wilkinson 2004) Estimates of the value of human welfare benefits provided by coral reefs range from US$ 30 billion (Cesar et al. 2003) to US$ 172 billion annually (Martinez et al. 2007)

growing food and livelihood insecurity, unreliable water supplies, deteriorating human welfare and increasing manifestation of erosive coping measures (e.g. eating less, distress sale of productive assets to buy food, reducing the years of schooling for children, etc.).

The ruling also proves that the Bush EPA was literally endangering human welfare by upholding such weak standards for fine particulate pollutants.

International Animal LawTM is an organization committed to improving animal and human welfare by:

Global Entrepreneurship Week is a global movement to celebrate innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth, and expand human welfare.

The conception of human welfare according to its ideologues is to be brought about by the increase in material goods and wealth and not by the fostering of human happiness.

We could focus on overcoming the first of the assumptions noted, an assumption that is not part of economic theory but rather of contemporary politics, namely, the primacy of the economy in shaping human welfare.

«Free trade» is the means whereby the most important decisions about human welfare are shifted from the political sector to the market, and that means to the major players within the market.

The impossibility of comparison may exist in some cases, but incommensurability fails to justify the ethics behind the ranking of values in policy matters; without compromise, the valuation of equal human welfare ought to be the chief concern in politics.

In its decision last week, the tribunal said: «Dr McBride's character mirrors the classic tragic character — the person of eminence in public life whose good deeds and interest in human welfare command respect and admiration, but who is brought down by a fatal flaw in character.»

Indeed, cutting back on, say, nitrogen fertilizer could significantly set back human welfare given that more than half of the people on the planet are fed by food grown with synthetic fertilizer.