Sentences with phrase «if human civilization»

The best way to answer this question is to figure out what evidence we'd leave behind if human civilization collapsed at its current stage of development.

No matter what the future holds fossil fuels will play some role if human civilization is still here.

If human civilization survives even the next few decades at the the current rate of scientific and mathematical advancement and progress, the concept of energy conversion in the next century will bear little resemblance to the «discussion» on Tom Murphy's blog.

Not exact matches

If we judge a civilization's success by its endurance over time, then the Bushmen are the most successful society in human history.

These are lines we can not cross if we want to hold on to a functioning human civilization — not a collection of failed states, desperate environmental refugees and collapsing food systems.

If something catastrophic happens to Earth, we lose billions of years of evolution and thousands of years of advanced human civilization.

He argued that the phenomenon of globalization is bringing new pressures of such magnitude that they could easily result in disastrous human conflicts, and that a global war of civilizations can be avoided only if world leaders accept the multi-civilizational character of global politics, and learn to co-operate.

So soon as the human race reaches the level of shared appreciation, ordered and agreed convictions as to ends or aims to be sought after and if possible achieved, and a pattern of common life in which the mutuality and sharing known at the personal level can be broadened in more or less formal communal patterns, we can speak of the appearance of civilization.

For if a husband may lord it over his wife, then it is only a matter of establishing additional categories as the human race increases and civilization becomes more complex: chiefs and little people, conquering tribe and conquered tribes, white people and dark people, rich and poor, the «civilized» and the «barbarians.»

If and when we are ever visited by an alien civilization, I can imagine one of the creature staring incredulously at the Vatican or wailing wall and asking its human hosts, «so, you REALLY thought it was all about you?»

The fundamental question of our age is this: Can humans really maintain a civilization if a predominant majority live etsi Deus non daretur, as if there is no God?

It would be disastrous if every scientist with religious concern deserted his field to enter the ministry; for these may be precisely the persons who can be most influential in redirecting a technological civilization to serve human values.

Who cares if the Roman Empire was indeed the «pinnacle of civilization» at that time, there were other humans living in other regions on every continent.

One can imagine, if and when we are eventually visited by an alien civilization, one of the creatures staring incredulously at the Vatican and asking its human hosts, «so, you really thought it was all about you?»

@Kyle, I never suggested that I said that if research had been done in the proper fields, most rational people would question their faith I guess archaeology is bit of a stretch as it is more of a human history based field but there were civilizations more than 6000 years ago

If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or by one of the earliest of civilizations, one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?

If basic spiritual, moral, and religious matters are not included in the primary understanding of why people do what they do, why civilizations follow the courses they follow, and why cultures get shaped the way they do get shaped, then something essential about the human condition is falsified.

Even if Wenger had the ultimate choice from invading aliens to either drop Giroud in favor for Sanchez or our damn human civilization would be at stake, we all know what he would have chosen.

Given how easily the Spanish conquered the Aztecs, such an alien civilization would not only seem God - like but could prove catastrophic for us if its members did contain those human emotions.

If that is the case, intelligent life may have but one remaining option: Send a nanobot through the wormhole to regenerate human civilization on the other side.

«If humans pursue a business - as - usual course for the first half of this century,» writes Flannery, «I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.»

Scientists put the Silurian hypothesis to the test, to see if humans were the first major civilization on Earth.

If you like those days - long Civilization sessions going through thousands of years of human development, the brief sessions of Starships leave you feeling like there's something missing — like you're eating a salad when you really want a hamburger.

as if the continuation of human civilization depended on their victory.

If no one ever reads this, it will be because the world as we know it has ceased to exist and human civilization is gone forever.

Many articles and blog posts argue that self - publishing will be the end of the publishing industry, no, the demise of Literature, if not the utter destruction of Human Civilization and All Life on Earth.

It helps to remind yourself that the forex market will be around as long as there is human civilization, so if the goal in our short time on this earth is to live as stress - free but as successfully as possible, than start working on this goal by employing a set and forget trading style by using simple price action trading strategies.

Wu explains: «If, in fact, a lot of things are cultural and human constructs, it means that we, as game makers, have a lot of ability to shape civilization, in a way.

«If, in fact, a lot of things are cultural and human constructs, it means that we, as game makers, have a lot of ability to shape civilization, in a way.»

The Gameological Society: If an alien species discovered Murdered: Soul Suspect as the only remnant of human civilization, what would they learn about us?

If you find one of the coins you need to advance, the game can not just give you a bell or jingle, Scrooge has to stand there and talk about some ancient civilization that sounds just like our human civilization, but they add the words duck or quack to the name.

More importantly, in my opinion, there are hundreds of millions of human beings on Earth who desperately and urgently need MORE energy — particularly access to electricity, which millions have never had — if they are to have any hope of participating in what readers of this blog like to think of as «advanced civilization».

flxible wrote that «running an advanced civilization on solar etc only» can only happen if we «accept that growth must end, in «economic» activity, all energy use, and particularly human population».

Through the rise of human civilizations, individual communities came to the realization that they could not be perpetually wanton, that they had to store seed for spring, that if they stole from their neighbors they would probably be robbed in kind, that if they stained a river and sickened those downstream, there was nothing to prevent the next upriver village from fouling their waters.

2) It is possible, even probable, that the threat will pose a mortal risk to economic prosperity if not human civilization.

If fossils of anatomically modern humans can be found from 200 - 300 thousand years ago, why didn't a technological civilization develop during the Eemian interglacial?

Economics is useless because the cost of a collapse of civilization is nearly infinite and the cost of the extinction of Homo Sapiens is infinite if you are a human.

Anyone who thinks that there is any genuine «debate» about either the reality of anthropogenic global warming and consequent climate change, or the grave threat not only to human civilization but to all life on earth if unmitigated, «business as usual» anthropogenic global warming and consequent climate change are permitted to continue, is profoundly misinformed.

If we have a threat with a possible consequence of the destruction of human civilization, we can not dismiss that threat until we are certain that there is zero probability of that threat being realized.

And if we've done nothing by 2020, it may be that we kick off geophysical feedbacks that make the problem so much worse human civilization will be endangered.

2) If population reduction can not address the carbon crisis, it still remains important for the eventual hoped - for establishment of a reasonably sustainable human civilization.

If the environment is being irreversibly degraded and natural resources are being dissipated recklessly, how can human civilization, life as we know it and the integrity of Earth as a fit for human habitation be maintained much longer?

Taylor's skillfully crafted sculptures not only provide reprieve for besieged coral reefs, but also are reminiscent of a kind of lost civilization of grace and beauty that can be rediscovered, if we choose — a profound alchemy where human intervention is transformed from blight to life.

Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»

Brad Johnson, who writes the Wonk Room blog for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, challenged me to clarify my stance on things, pointing to a post by his colleague Joe Romm concluding that «human civilization is on the precipice» and asking if I agreed.

Christy concluded that «if the country deems it necessary to de-carbonize civilization's main energy sources, sound and indeed compelling reasons beyond human - induced climate change need to be offered.

If we accept the ethical mandate to protect the future of human civilization, then what must we do?

If we want to preserve a world similar to the one in which human civilization developed, scientists have concluded that we need to stabilize the level of CO2 below 350 parts per million (ppm).

Gore's thesis is fourfold: (1) Global Warming is real, (2) Global Warming is a potential catastrophe to human civilization, (3) we CAN do something about it if we act both quickly and responsibly and (4) we are all in this together; it is not (or should not be) a political debate.

This cost will jeopardize the lives of billions or perhaps trillions of people, for generations to come, if not for the rest human civilization's time on Earth.