Sentences with phrase «impact on the planet becomes»

Choosing the right approach is vital as the scale of human impact on the planet becomes so large that scientists are calling this new epoch in Earth's history the Anthropocene (when human activity alters global climate and ecosystems).

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As the countdown begins for us to join people from across the globe to celebrate WED on 5 June 2016, we all need to take part in environmental action and become agents of change for positive impacts on the planet.

Now more than ever, travelers are becoming more conscious about the impact we're all having on the planet, and how important it is to try and minimize our carbon footprints while we're on the road.

This is the first time in our presence on the planet that we have become aware of our impact — that we can influence all of the plants and animals on every continent, in every ocean, that is really quite extraordinary.

Things like this are occurring all over this continent in which I live and across every other continent on this planet and for AGW / CC and it's IMPACTS are happening now everywhere and will only become more unpredictable and unprecedented and more damaging as time goes on.

TWITTER has become a hotbed of debate between staunch believers of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) and those sceptical of the supposed adverse impacts of mankind's energy emissions on planet Earth.

And the hole in the ozone layer became the poster - child for mankind's impact on the planet.

It is also about the increasingly trendy idea of the Anthropocene: the suggestion that human impact on the planet is so great that we have, collectively become not just a geological force but the dominant one in the modern age, and that our impacts will be seen in the geological record for eons to come.

«The world has become a far more dangerous place when the actions of two countries on the other side of the world could have such a drastic impact on the planet.»

Given that the cosmic ray effect described by Svensmark would be more than sufficient to account for the net estimated temperature change since the Industrial Revolution, the key question becomes: Has human activity actually warmed, cooled or had no net impact on the planet?

In 2001, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment announced that humanity's impact on the natural world was increasing to levels never before seen, and that the degradation of the planet's ecosystems would become a major barrier to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.