Sentences with phrase «major impact on the planet»

So many decisions we make in our everyday lives have a major impact on the planet.

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Researchers at the Oxford Martin School say that food and farming will be responsible for almost half of the planet's «carbon budget» by 2050 but that cutting meat out of our diets, or simply cutting down on the amount we eat, will have a major impact on associated emissions.

«We found that heat transported by oceans would have a major impact on the temperature distribution across a planet, and would potentially allow a greater area of a planet to be habitable.

Nobody ever said it was going to be easy, but the discovery of a cluster of recent meteorite impacts on Mars has highlighted a major reason why future colonization of the Red Planet will be an almighty challenge.

Considering the impact of greenhouse gases on the warming of the planet - which has been forecasted to detrimentally affect global environments and make the Earth less inhabitable — the U.S. and China have come together to address and mitigate their emissions as the major contributors.

Satellite photos of oil on salt water may even impact the politics of environment in the USA, just as did NASA's first photos of the Blue Planet two years after the first Earth Day, helping inspire Congress to pass major pieces of environmental legislation.

So here, this astronomer is postulating, «that the orbits of the major planets had a strong impact on the amount of energy radiated from the Sun and the pattern of that radiation in the form of solar cycles.»

There is GREAT UNCERTAINTY as to WHEN our planet will be hit by a major asteroid, although it is fairly CERTAIN that this will happen again some day, and — when it does — it is fairly CERTAIN (based on previous incidents) that the impact on our environment and on human society will be DISASTROUS.

a) start off by making a hypothesis concerning the color of crows and how this impacts their habits b) based on the hypothesis, create model scenarios to simulate the color and behavior of crows c) investigate fossil remains of pre-historic Archaeopteryx d) declare that the paleo - avain findings check closely with the model e) validate the model scenarios by comparing them with one another f) declare that the hypothesis has been confirmed by the model simulations g) project that (if unabated by exorbitantly costly measures involving major payments to dictatorships in the developing world) black crows will destroy all other species plus our planet by 2100 h) ensure that «crow disaster scenario» is conveyed to public by a doomsday - hungry» media

But even though we don't have to deal with that pesky creditor Gaia the same way we would a debt in our daily lives, we've still got to come to terms with the fact that humanity is spending our natural capital faster than our planet can regenerate it, and that bill's gonna come due sooner or later, in the form of major impacts on our food, water, energy, and natural resources.

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.