Sentences with phrase «humans head toward»

My focus is a bit «meta» given the broad focus of the blog on trends as humans head toward people population and appetites.

This is how it goes, and it's a warning to environmentalists and others focused on avoiding losses as humans head toward a population of 9 billion in the next several decades, exerting an ever greater influence over the sheath of life enriching lands and seas.

Not exact matches

«In the next few decades, we are either going to head toward self - destruction, or toward human descendants eventually colonizing the universe,» he said.

Yet it stands head and shoulders above its nearest rival; its separateness inheres, not in theories of its origin and nature, but in the solid facts of its worth and of its impact upon human society in the way both of rebuke to the low and bestial and of exaltation of an impossible ideal, toward which, nonetheless, it has attracted and impelled.

But when I stop to think of all the human beings headed toward an eternity apart from Christ, in a place that originally was prepared for Satan and his demonic forces... Wow... my heart breaks!

If the previous view failed to understand the world as heading toward redemption, this one sees moving it toward being fixed as a human project.

It appears a core weakness in humans where one heads toward a heart filled with hate and the another a heart filled with hope.

A big skull was not conducive to easy births, and thus a within - group pressure toward smaller heads was probably always present, as it still is in present - day humans, who have an unusually high infant mortality rate due to big - headed babies.

We use those obvious questions as stepping - stones toward what we hope is a much more nuanced view of the modern neuroscientific understanding of how the three or so pounds of brain in your head can give rise to the complexities of the human experience.

While critics of the plan abound, the study lays clear the authors» belief that «this model will facilitate current efforts toward the first human head transplant.»

Currently, a spacecraft heading toward Mars is slated to resemble the old Apollo program — along the lines of the new Constellation program, which is planned to take humans back to the moon.

Waving the impending destruction heading toward Earth Anachrony takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of the planet where humans have constructed domed cities to survive.

The piece references Darwin's «Tree of Life» which illustrated his theory of Natural Selection, the three headed dog points toward a human - centric idea of evolution through cloning.

As a backdrop, a colossal painting of an asbestos - suited figure fleeing a burning Manhattan while being pursued by a human - headed snake, making its way to a garbage strewn New Jersey where a skeleton lies in wait with a gun; in front, a life - size sculpture of a map - skinned boy with flames sprouting from his body races toward a tree hung with animal skulls and a severed head.

Libby's article speaks volumes about the difficulty of moving a world that is more than 80 percent dependent on fossil fuels toward one largely free of carbon dioxide emissions from such fuels within two or three generations, even as the human population heads toward 9 billion (more or less).

As the human population heads toward 9 billion, more or less, with most of the growth coming in struggling places, unless more is done to boost resilience to known hazards — earthquakes included — there will be ever more wrenching imagery like that out of China (and Myanmar, as well).

Much less challenging, and high profile, is the need, in a world heading toward nine billion people, to figure out how to make everything that's been learned about drought, floods, and other climate - related risks useful to the majority of the human population — people in Niger and Bangladesh who face such risks every day right now, with or without whatever climate destabilization is coming from the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases.

It's been quite a week for those seeking to revive the country's focus on the importance of science and engineering to human progress, the need for new energy choices in a world heading toward 9 billion people, and attention to the degrading biosphere.

With or without the threat of human - caused climate disruption, it's clear the world lacks the menu of energy options it will require to avoid trouble as the human population heads toward 9 billion people (more or less), all seeking a decent life.

The goal, to my mind, can be to build the foundations of an energy system sufficient to meet human needs, with limited environmental costs, as the world heads toward and beyond a mid-century crest of some 9 billion people seeking decent lives.

Our energy thirst will probably be 30 trillion watts, or 30 terrawatts, by 2050 with the human population heading toward 9 billion.

As the human species heads toward 9 billion in the next few decades, with a tendency to eat up the food chain as prosperity rises, is there any prospect of sustaining yields of seafood, whether wild - caught or farmed?

Lee Schipper, a specialist on cities, transportation and pollution diving time between Stanford and Berkeley, is a frequent presence on Dot Earth and a source for me when pondering how the world heads toward nine billion mainly - urban humans with the fewest traffic jams and smog alerts.

That might well have been true in the early 20th century when the human population was under 2 billion; now it's nearly 7 billion and heading toward roughly 9 billion before cresting.

The human population is heading toward more or less 9 billion (the latest bidding by population experts is on the high side).

It's a realm that surely overlaps with my core question here on Dot Earth — how we head toward more - or-less nine billion humans with the fewest regrets — but comes at the issues mainly from the business side.

In the next two generations, we're heading toward adding the equivalent of two more China's to the human population by 2050 or so.

This law tells us that all in the universe, trees, human beings, plants, animals, buildings and all else are headed downward from complexity to simplicity toward decay, deterioration, decadence, and death.

In many respects the changing attitude toward international law, headed by the House of Lords under the unmistakable leadership of Lord Bingham, has provided an example for other national courts (NCs) to follow, starting in 2004 with the so - called Belmarsh Detainees judgment, that stunning 8 - 1 majority declaration that found the detention of foreign suspected terrorists incompatible with the Human Rights Act.

Facebook promised to change the way its news feed would appear, going as far as getting away from paid content and head toward human interaction.

A decade ago, the explosive growth of Human Resources Outsourcing firms (HROs) appeared to be heading toward controlling — if not owning outright — most of the transaction volume in relocation services.