Sentences with phrase «immediate human future»

It is rather ironic that we can forecast the far distant future of this planet more clearly than we can foresee the immediate human future on its surface.

Not exact matches

«One particular religious freedom issue demands our immediate attention: the now - finalized rule of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that would force virtually all private health plans nationwide to provide coverage of sterilization and contraception - including abortifacient drugs - subject to an exemption for «religious employers» that is arbitrarily narrow, and to an unspecified and dubious future «accommodation» for other religious organizations that are denied the exemption,» the statement read.

At a given moment every human being is definite, and definite in their history up until that point, but until they die their future is at least partly indefinite, even with respect to the immediate future, and perhaps largely indefinite with respect to the distant future.

Growing out of this concern for a desirable human future as well as out of the more immediate practical concerns of corporations and government agencies, the last decade has witnessed a spectacular burst of interest in futurology.

However, the concept of subjective aim in subjects below the human level is that of an anticipatory relationship to the immediate future, not to the distant future.

In most occasions the future that is in view is very immediate, but in human beings it can also include the more distant one.

In humans, scientists know a lot about the cells involved in immediate antibody production, called plasmablasts, but less about the separate group of cells responsible for the «storage / research for the future» functions, called memory B cells.

``... for most nations the Kyoto Protocol would require extensive diversion of human and financial resources away from more immediate and pressing needs in health care, education, infrastructure, and, yes, the environment — all critical to the well - being of future generations.»

In Origin of The Species subtitled «An exploration into the nature of the world via the extraordinary S, who lives in the wilderness», we hear S. musing on his immediate world and the wider universe: on evolution, quantum physics, and the uncertain future of the human race, while Rivers's camera explores his wooden hut, his drawings for inventions and the bracken filled woods that surround him.

It kills me to be such a pessimist, but humans (and all animals) are wired to focus on the immediate and not on the future, and therefore the future will probably be quite desolate.

I have three immediate responses: Satisfaction in the great success of the collaboration, concern that this slightly increases worries about future sea - level rise from human - caused warming, but technical questions that may leave us more - or-less where we were before on the biggest picture.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

Lead author Dr Sophie Lewis from the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society said human activities had already locked in this new normal for future temperatures, but immediate climate action could prevent record extreme seasons year after year.

We've evolved to respond more vigorously to threats that are immediate and easy to picture mentally, rather than those that are distant and abstract; we're more sensitive to intentional threats from specific humans, rather than unintentional ones resulting from collective action; we're terrible at making small sacrifices in the present to avoid vast ones in future; our attention is seized by phenomena that change daily, rather than those that ratchet up gradually over years.

In the immediate future he wishes to undertake FRU employment cases and get involved in a Bar Human Rights Committee Project.

And that cuts both ways: lawyers» primary marketplace difficulty, now and in the immediate future, is that we don't use our human skills enough: active listening, good judgment, regular communication, and real empathy for the client.

The interior and the interactions that Byton showed off make more sense for a nearly full or fully - self driving car, and yet this is still very much a car that needs a human driver in the immediate future.

Defined and resolved extremely complex human capital issues by providing an integrated and strategic approach enabling the business to meet its immediate and future goals