Sentences with phrase «humanity over nature»

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The bodily act of begetting, by which parents transmit their humanity to their children, can become an act of technical mastery over that part of nature which happens to be the human body.

But during tens of thousands of years the weaving and extension of this thinking network over the surface of the globe proceeded so slowly and sporadically that until quite recently not even the most acute observers, although they recognized the biological singularity of our nature, seem to have suspected that, zoologically speaking, Humanity might be wholly unique in its destiny and structural potentialities.

The history of humanity is, in part, a history of human victories over «nature», of disease being eradicated and deserts made to bloom.

And not only are some aspects of nature's sex taking a battering; in some cases, it might actually be fighting back, modifying its advertising to be better heard over humanity's din.

There is over 100x more U238 in nature than U235, so the time that 200 years of uranium can last humanity turns into 20,000.

Walkabout is a deceptively simple tale about lost children trying to find their way home that slowly grows into a treatise against the continued expansion of industry, the domination of humanity over unbridled nature, and the correlation between the savageries still inherent in so - called civilized society.

Bruce Watson's latest work is a whirlwind tour of humanity's perception of the nature of light over the millennia — how something that was once considered miraculous has transformed into a tool that's «cheap and easy, available not just in every home and office but in every palm and pocket.»

Over the course of many centuries, decimated tribes of humanity have clawed their way back to some semblance of civilization, and learning the history of this world and the nature of the aforementioned megafauna machines is a gripping adventure.

The rusty remnants, scattered over more than 600 miles of desert, represent open questions about the nature of humanity and our relationship to nature.

The rusty remnants, scattered over more than 600 miles of desert, represent open questions about the nature of humanity and our relationship...

He brings together images of humanity, nature and built environments from all over the globe.

Taylor's meditations on the relationship between humanity and nature take place amongst the urban grit; in Van Cortlandt a tree produces a tumorous growth over a metal plate; in Brooklyn Navy Yard a tree stump is entangled in a chain link fence; in Kelso ivy infiltrates an interior wall; in Laocoon a broken - branched tree is set off by the brilliant colors of a polluted sky.

As early as the 1970s, «deep ecologist» Paul Shephard, developed the misanthropic notion that the whole of humanity should be ghettoized in cities, giving the rest of the planet over to a nature devoid of humans.

The value of a diverse discussion was never clearer than at the special Vatican meeting just over a year ago at which scientists, church figures, economists, a labor - rights campaigner and others (including me) gathered to ponder this theme: «Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature, Our Responsibility.»

In essence, fossil fuels reinforce a consumerist mindset of prideful, greedy and gluttonous (yet, false) control over nature — that humanity can extract and consume fossil fuels on our own terms (some would say, «dispatchable generation»).

I have also come to understand, over the course of researching this book, that the shift will require rethinking the very nature of humanity's power — our right to extract ever more without facing consequences, our capacity to bend complex natural systems to our will.

Thousands of people across six continents are joining massive clean - ups of beaches and parks and over 30 iconic landmarks are lighting up in green in a powerful demonstration of humanity's love for nature on World Environment Day

And why they fear the response of Nature over humanity if the GE programs are interrupted?

OAKLAND, CA, Sept. 4, 2017 — Global Footprint Network and Schneider Electric signed a global partnership to engage people around the world in moving the date of Earth Overshoot Day — the date when humanity's annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate over the entire year.