Sentences with phrase «indeed human civilization»

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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.

Indeed, in a globalizing, and simultaneously anarchic world, we can only succeed together as a human civilization or fail as a whole.

Indeed, humans have relied on plant - and animal - sourced materials since the dawn of civilization.

Not to mention a vastly greater set of energy sources — indeed, a limitless set of energy sources on any time scale that's meaningful to human civilization.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

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.

In the first presidential debate, though the moderator disappointingly failed to ask a question about was is arguably the single most critical issue facing human civilization today — human - caused climate change — the Democratic nominee for President, Hillary Clinton, forced the issue herself by calling out Donald Trump for his denial of climate change, noting that he, for example, in a past tweet dismissed climate change as a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese (indeed Trump has posted at least a half - dozen climate change - denying tweets over the past few years).

We know that human civilization, at least as measured by the «cradle of civilization» occurred during the warmth (indeed longer, hotter summers and colder winters) of the Holocene Climatic Optimum.

«If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization... I believe it's deadly accurate.

Indeed, our technology and wealth will make people and civilizations much better able to prepare for and adapt to most climate changes, although another Pleistocene - scale ice age would devastate northern cities, decimate agricultural production, and drive human and species migrations.

In Part 1 «Climate makes history ``, the documentary looks at how abrupt climate changes indeed occurred in the past and how they had profound impacts on the development of our civilization, thus dumping cold water on the naïve notion that climate used to be more or less steady before humans began industrialization.