Zero population growth reduces demand pressure, less pollution, less resource use,
less human conflict, and when there are so many positives and no strong argument that the world needs 12 billion people, it is «case closed» as far as I'm concerned.
Not exact matches
All
human beings face contradictions and sharp differences within their souls, but few have the
conflicts in their souls put on display as a national tragedy no
less than a personal contradiction.
The tangle of political and economic
conflicts is so much worse than I realized ten years ago, and the apparent resources of
human intelligence so much
less, that I no longer hope confidently for «peace in our time.»
Arising out of what I have said, the diagram at the end of this chapter represents the state of tension which has come to exist more or
less consciously in every
human heart as a result of the seeming
conflict between the modern forward impulse (OX), induced in us all by the newly - born force of trans - hominization, and the traditional upward impulse of religious worship (OY).
21 (12, 15 - 17), 22 (19 f.), and 31 (15b) but thought to be an original and ancient unit, in which series the death penalty is assigned when comparable offenses in other codes are
less drastically punished.13 But the death penalty in these cases serves generally to underline the moral and religious seriousness of the covenant community, and in the Israelite scale it in no wise
conflicts with the pattern of law which places
human life above all other values save two: the sacredness of family and the integrity of Yahweh.
With the exception of Tug Hill, these other areas include a greater proportion of agriculture or have higher
human densities, making them
less suitable for bears due to the higher likelihood of
human - bear
conflicts.»
That, in turn, could provoke more retaliatory killings, and lions will feel the squeeze from each side as they suffer both from direct
conflict with
humans and from having
less to eat.
The film's thematic center is no
less than the
human experience when faced with imminent, inescapable death, and the fact that, despite cultural boundaries and international
conflict, there are universal truths to our existence as
human beings.
In the big picture it's quite simple: In a world with finite resources, fewer people mean greater levels of resources equitably available to all, while greater numbers of people mean there's
less to go around without running into
conflict over those resources or tragically and perpetually marginalizing parts of our
human family.
This provision is also interesting in that it appears to
conflict more or
less directly with the U.N.'s own Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, who has issued an opinion that such cut - offs are likely inconsistent with the right to free expression enshrined in the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (A / HRC / 17.27):
His simple line, «Objective: Position in
Human Resources with emphasis on Recruitment,» made Brent feel more empowered about his career transition, and
less like a victim of corporate
conflict.
This approach places
less emphasis on genes, past learning, or unconscious
conflicts and dwells mostly on the unique
human capacity to shape one's own future through freedom of choice and free will.