Sentences with phrase «just global society»

Human rights in occupational therapy education: A step towards a more occupationally just global society.

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Rather than criticizing leaders who are stepping up to help solve the most pressing problems of global society — devoting not just their money but their time as well — we should be venerating them.

I'm Chairman of such a civil society structure, global think tank called the Club of Rome, and I'm just coming from Beijing, where they have informed me that the rules for registrations of civil society structures have been streamlined and improved, so much so that this triangle can also be applied here in China.

Just as a butterfly develops from a larva, growing inside a shell which was once the skin of a grub, so out of the chrysalis of Christendom there is currently emerging a new kind of society — a global, humanistic and secular society.

The moral and spiritual resources for a just, peaceful and sustainable global society are pressing daily upon us, seeking entry into life and blocked only by self - interest.

In contrast to these global trends among traditional societies and non-Western countries, U.S. government data estimates that fewer than 15 % of Americans continue nursing their infants after they are just six months old (while Canadians are slightly higher with an average of about 25 %).

The threat to caribou is just one of many detailed in the 2008 - 2009 edition of the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) State of the Wild: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans, which assesses «where we think we are and where we think we can be,» says Steven Sanderson, WCS president and CEO.

In fact, human society added half of the global warming pollution that is in the atmosphere in just the last 40 years.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

A CEO from one of the world's top five global fashion brands has to work for just four days to earn what a garment worker in Bangladesh will earn in an TheRichest is the world's leading source of shocking and intriguing content surrounding celebrities, money, global events, society, pop culture, sports and

In this context, there is growing interest in global citizenship education (GCE), signaling a shift in the role and purpose of education to that of forging more just, peaceful, tolerant and inclusive societies.

Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.

These conversations will prepare students as global citizens, helping them expand their worldviews and become productive members of a more just and equitable society.

When the STEM Education for a Global Society Academy, a Columbus County school that focused on interactive, hands - on learning methods, shut its doors due to governance issues in April 2015 just months after state leaders approved their application, the school had already pulled in nearly $ 1 million in taxpayer dollars, according to state records.

With just 11 weeks to go until China's Yulin dog meat festival, animal groups from across China gathered in Beijing to stand in solidarity with Humane Society International's global #StopYulin campaign to end the annual event, where an estimated 10,000 dogs and countless cats are brutally slaughtered for human consumption.

Sam is also the largest individual donor to Save the Children, which just announced a new global philanthropic community called the Simon Society.

Women are rising to great political power in societies around the world and we are just beginning to see a shift occur as more women step into positions of global leadership.

Just as Albers's «Manhattan» expressed the 1960's dream of a vibrant but rational society, Mr. Stella's increasingly frenzied geometries provide an appropriate metaphor for the permanent revolution of today's global economy.

MoMA, the Public Theater, New York Fashion Week, the New Museum, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Eyebeam, and the New York Historical Society — these are just a small sampling of the cultural offerings in New York City, a global nexus of art, design, and business.

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

But Dr. Ken Caldeira, a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in Stanford, Calif., and a member of the Royal Society panel, said the difference was that the current carbon dioxide release was occurring quickly, over just two centuries.

The complete failure of climate alarmist science in just about every field it has forced it's way into is becoming increasingly obvious and the totality of avoidable costs, individually for the poor, as well as socially, politically and economically for society that climate alarmist science has imposed on our global and national societies is horrendous and only now is just beginning to be totaled up.

«Just this week, the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives released a new report to the United Nations Rio +20 Earth Summit on Sustainable Development.

In 1990, two years after NASA scientist James E. Hansen issued his now famous warning about climate change during a congressional hearing, Lindzen started taking a publicly contrarian stance when he challenged then - senator Gore by suggesting in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that the case for human - induced global warming was overstated and that natural climate variability could explain things just as easily.

It looks to me that either we go nuclear, and that means we have to find a way of keeping it safe, or global society and civilisation will just face an inevitable downward spiral during the course of this century.

If the total society - wide cap, before it is allocated among emitters within the jurisdiction of the government allocating the cap, is less than the government's fair share of safe global emissions, then the cap is not environmentally just particularly to those who are vulnerable to climate change.

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So given the fact that you just wrote «Global Warming is a religious cult,» don't you think it is fair that just once I am permitted to compare your group to the Flat Earth Society?

Speakers came from Brighter Green (a US non-profit action tank with a focus on food policy and equity), Humane Society International, and the Global Forest Coalition (an organization working for socially - just forest policy, with a special focus on Indigenous Peoples» rights).

If this shits you... well, petal, just get over yourself: global warming is a profoundly serious problem, and if the likes of you get your way and we don't address it post haste the planet will within decades be committed to a future where down the track it is screwed for human society and for a large chunk of life on Earth.

Problem is, it's pretty much just a retread of the path the U.S. is already on, which isn't enough to keep global warming from crossing the «dangerous» two degree Celsius threshold — a point above which scientific consensus paints an increasingly bleak future, with global impacts capable of destabilizing human society.

«We had hoped that this would be the year that the process was opened up to voices from civil society and the global South, but as the climate talks draw to a close it is becoming clear that the ears of the global North are closed to any just and effective climate solutions.

Just yesterday, in a speech to the Society of American Foresters U.S. Forest Service chief Gail Kimbell says the nation can expect more wildfires like the ones raging through Southern California as global climate change heats up the world's forests.

This long - term perspective illustrates that policy decisions made in the next few years to decades will have profound impacts on global climate, ecosystems and human societies — not just for this century, but for the next ten millennia and beyond.

BSR is a global nonprofit organization that works with its network of more than 250 member companies, their supply chain partners, civil society organizations and authorities, to build a just and sustainable world.

Instead of reevaluating the way in which every one of us lives our lives (in terms of material consumption, housing patterns, transportation patterns, dietary norms) to build societies which are radically lower in carbon emissions than they are currently, just spend a lot on money trying to tinker with global ecosystems to correct for global problems which were caused by us in the first place.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

The companies themselves are now quite huge, quite powerful, quite global, and no longer just the main economic actors in our society.

«At this pivotal stage, we are growing from a startup to leading global company, just as crypto goes from early adopter novelty into being foundational to the future of society and the economy,» Allaire added in subtle praise for cryptocurrency's progress.

«The message is clear: When looking at their career goals, today's Millennials are just as interested in how a business develops its people and how it contributes to society as they are in its products and profits,» said Barry Salzberg, CEO of Deloitte Global, in the company's Fourth Annual study on Millennials.