Sentences with phrase «human welfare as»

On the other extreme you have the humanists who view human welfare as paramount and human ingenuity as boundless, so even if real global temperature effects are completely irrelevant.

Thus, through the foreseeable future (very optimistically 2085), other factors will continue to outweigh climate change with respect to human welfare as characterized by (a) mortality for hunger, malaria and coastal flooding, and (b) population at risk for waters stress.

The Alliance provided essential support in the form of crucial expertise and technical assistance addressing the link between animal welfare and human welfare as well as pet welfare assistance.

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

Not exact matches

This technology reinforces natural instincts, such as the prolongation of human life, which inevitably entails great costs - greater costs than the welfare state can bear.

As has been noted, a certain level of biological and material welfare is a precondition for substantial human sharing.

His statements about priest and king being bound to the land and the people ultimately point back toward a view that sees social and moral responsibility for the common welfare as stemming from a prior relational view of human persons.

Speciesism is universally condemned within the animal rights movement (as distinguished from animal welfare advocacy), which holds, in the words of PETA's Ingrid Newkirk, «There is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights.

The comments filed Monday with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services express concerns over the regulations» exemption of houses of worship but not other religious entities such as schools, hospitals and social welfare program providers.

Mr. Liben has correctly identified a serious challenge to human welfare, a tendency to regard individuals as puppets of «society,» and therefore without moral responsibility for their conduct.

Clearly, the philanthropist has a sincere interest in the welfare of his fellow men, and this interest is normally presented as disinterested: all the philanthropist wants to see is happy fellow humans.

He must then assume responsibility for the welfare of his organization and of the human commonwealth as a whole.

Disillusionment with the welfare state, combined with the weakening of the languages of biblical religion and civic republicanism that traditionally moderated Lockean individualism, led many to take the market maximizer as the paradigm of the human person.

War, however, can be viewed as relatively temporary, while tyranny may precipitate long - range bondage and the suppression of those freedoms basic to human dignity and welfare.

However, when conservationists try to oppose polluters and developers solely with pragmatic arguments about the value to human welfare of, for example, gene pools in rain forests, they have been maneuvered into fighting on the same ground as their opponents.

Involvement in the multitudinous problems of a rapidly expanding urban area or exposure to the increasingly bitter struggle between labor and management or entanglement in the luxuriant and rank growth so abundantly fostered by the new wealth of the «gilded age»: these and other factors caused many men to re-examine their roles as ministers and to seek more effective ways of ministering to the needs of their time.11 Perhaps the most important thing that happened to such men was that they became aware of the many factors bearing on human welfare and thus of importance to the Christian gospel.

In terms of scientific policy these figures seem to reflect a disproportionate emphasis on applied work and on the physical sciences, to the neglect of pure research and biology, as well as of the social fields whose growth is essential if technology is to contribute to human welfare.

Insofar as there is an identity or connection between survival and human welfare, we are dealing with a valid moral principle.

In short, animal welfare does not ascribe «rights» to animals, but instead places on us — as an aspect of human exceptionalism — moral and legal duties to engage in proper husbandry practices.

Daly and Cobb (1989, pp. 401 et seq) have devised an index of sustainable economic welfare (ISEW) as a measure of the well - being of humans and the environment.

Anxiety in general is the response of the human organism to anything that is perceived as a threat to what one regards as essential to one's welfare or safety.

As it turned out, of course, Asia more than doubled in size and set off a new industrial revolution whose impact on human welfare has been of revolutionary proportions by virtually any measure: infant mortality, literacy, life expectancy, caloric intake, etc..

A decent description of American conservatism, this recalibration of human welfare on par with market forces «treats as sacred the equal right of individuals to reap whatever rewards accrue from whatever they own.»

«I have written to all relevant human rights agencies both within and outside the country to assist in that regard as Kogi Government and its officials are averse to constructive criticisms, yet refused to take the welfare of Kogi workers and pensioners on the priority list of its administration

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

As Nick Clegg — once the voters had thrown him out of government — said himself, Osborne's behaviour was «very unattractive, very cynical»; for him, welfare «was just a bottomless pit of savings, and it didn't really matter what the human consequences were», it was just a means to boost his party's popularity.

Olasupo declared that the «Mission of BBC was to serve as the human engineering that would carefully and politely ensure the welfare of Catholic Brothers, Sisters, Priests and the Religious».

From its cannibalistic proclivities, the world can see why the APC and its insensitive Federal Government care less about the lives and welfare of Nigerians, resulting in the escalation of violence, bloodletting, mass killings, extra-judicial executions, persecution of citizens, abuse of human rights, constitutional violations, including invasion of the National Assembly as well as attack on federal lawmakers and judicial officers.

The findings of a UN inquiry investigating alleged violations of disabled people's human rights in the UK as a result of welfare reforms will not be published for two years, the Guardian has learned.

«Ironically, as people seek to take control over the way their food is grown, most ordinances fail to ensure basic health and welfare for birds and humans,» said Catherine Brinkley, assistant professor of community and regional development, in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Marine litter affects ecosystem services, which has important implications for human welfare through losses to economic sectors such as tourism, fisheries, aquaculture, navigation and energy.

As it takes flight in Kenya, this Eurasian roller (Coracias garrulous), with its magnificent blue and teal - colored wings, offers a reminder of the promise of discovery and innovation for improving human welfare.

The treatment of Asian elephants is a huge issue of animal welfare: and, as the forests of Asia diminish and the human population grows (India anticipates 1.6 billion people by 2050 AD) the working animals could well outnumber the rest.

The objectives of the Caribbean Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science are to further the work of scientists, to facilitate cooperation among them, to foster scientific freedom and responsibility, to improve the effectiveness of science in the promotion of human welfare, to increase public understanding and appreciation of the importance and promise of the methods of science in human progress, and to serve as a vehicle for communication and cooperation among scientific societies within the territory of the Division.

The objectives of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science are to further the work of scientists, to facilitate cooperation among them, to foster scientific freedom and responsibility, to improve the effectiveness of science in the promotion of human welfare, to increase public understanding and appreciation of the importance and promise of the methods of science in human progress, to foster science education, and to serve as a unifying and coordinating agency for scientific societies within the territory of the Division.

Thus, BPRC is fully compliant with the international demands on animal studies and welfare as set forth by the European Council Directive 2010 / 63 / EU, and Convention ETS 123, including the revised Appendix A as well as the «Standard for humane care and use of Laboratory Animals by Foreign institutions» identification number A5539 - 01, provided by the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States of America's National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dutch implementing legislation.

For human studies, Awardee institutions must safeguard the rights and welfare of individuals who participate as subjects by reviewing proposed activities through an Institutional Review Board (IRB) as specified by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office for Human Research Protections, DHHS OHRP (http://www.hhs.gov/ohhuman studies, Awardee institutions must safeguard the rights and welfare of individuals who participate as subjects by reviewing proposed activities through an Institutional Review Board (IRB) as specified by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office for Human Research Protections, DHHS OHRP (http://www.hhs.gov/ohHuman Research Protections, DHHS OHRP (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/).

A more specific definition sees it as an umbrella term which covers a range of issues such as working conditions, human rights, fair trade, sustainable production, environmental considerations, and animal welfare.

The horrors are ecological: pollution, overpopulation, welfare as a national way of life, objectification of human beings.

This prototype futuristic citadel, Would function as a framework for the transformation of human societies of the present and building the world of tomorrow, in order to ensure the individual and collective welfare, which is, after all, the purpose of existence of human beings.

The right to education contains, besides the mentioned general paradox of human rights, also a twofold purpose in itself: it «may be regarded as a commodity to which an individual is entitled both as an end in itself but also as a means to other welfare rights.»

But at the same time, society's systems for fostering human potential — public education, social welfare programs, workforce training — are widely viewed as underperforming and even as contributing to inequality rather than helping to remedy it.

«Everything that promotes the market, i.e., privatization, deregulation, mobility of finance and capital, abandonment of government - provided social welfare, and the reconception of human beings as human capital, [is] encouraged.

The American Veterinary Medical Association defines animal welfare as ``... a human responsibility that encompasses all aspects of animal well - being, including proper housing, management, nutrition, disease prevention and treatment, responsible care, humane handling and, when necessary, humane euthanasia.»

Previously, she served as vice president of the Human - Animal Strategic Initiatives for the American Humane Association, where she managed the Washington D.C. office and was responsible for the legislative agenda on child and animal welfare.

Fields like social psychology and sociology, social movement studies, human - animal studies, animal welfare science, and political science are increasingly studying animal advocacy methods and the movement as a whole as a legitimate and worthwhile object for academic study and controlled experiment.

The report said animal welfare experts told BLM officials during the investigation that electrical prods should be used only as a last resort when human or animal safety is in jeopardy.

As an animal welfare organization, we believe that humans can interact with animals in entertainment, industry, sport and recreation, but that the interaction should include provisions for the proper care and humane management of all animals involved.

In my tenure in the animal welfare field I have worked for an organization that had so many volunteers we had to turn people away, as well as an organization that was so starved for volunteers we would take any breathing human being that walked through the door.

We have taken the tenets of the human - animal bond to their logical conclusion - accepting that animals, especially pets and other tame animals or animals kept in barns (cows, horses, sheep, goats) are so important to the lifeblood of this planet and the health and welfare of humans, as to be raised to a level of appreciation beyond the ordinary.